{"product_id":"taguchi-inuo-haydn-morning","title":"Taguchi Inuo, Haydn Morning","description":"\u003cdiv data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eTranslated by Takako Lento\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\n\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eHaydn Morning\u003c\/em\u003e is the fifth collection by one of Japan’s finest contemporary poets, arriving over a decade since his last collection, \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eSt. Francis’ Birds\u003c\/em\u003e (2008). Why did it take twelve long years? Taguchi explains: I can give a few reasons, but the major issue was my health, which presented me with medically inexplicable disorders. Ralph Waldo Emerson said, “Every wall is a door.” For me my illness turned out to be the door. It took more than ten years for it to open. (It appeared totally different from the way ‘a door’ looks.) So what \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eHaydn Morning\u003c\/em\u003e brings you is the world on the other side of that door. I hope you will explore what I saw, as you page through this book. Looking forward to meeting you ‘beyond the door’! Sometimes armored with wit and humor, sometimes with painful innocence and sincerity, Taguchi writes for those who don’t usually read poetry but whose souls may be in need of it.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eTaguchi Inuo (whose pen name literally means Dog Man) was born in 1967, a few years after the Tokyo Olympics that would herald the end of the ‘post-war’ years and the start of an economic boom in Japan. He grew up in Tokyo, able to enjoy those days of the boomin economy, but it was only after Japan hit rockier times economically that he started writing poetry. Taguchi’s work stood in distinct contrast to the mainstream Japanese poetry of his time. While the poems of his contemporaries were seriously intellectual, his were light, concrete and precise, and intelligent. Taguchi’s first collection, \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e20th-Century Orphan\u003c\/em\u003e, came out in 1995. His second collection, \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eGeneral Moo\u003c\/em\u003e (2000), won the prestigious Takami Jyun Award, followed by \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eArmadillogic\u003c\/em\u003e (2002); and \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eSt. Francis’ Birds\u003c\/em\u003e (2008).\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTakako Lento\u003c\/strong\u003e translates poetry and prose from Japanese to English and vice versa, her most recent collections being Shuntarō Tanikawa’s \u003cem\u003eOrdinary People\u003c\/em\u003e (2021) and Shinkawa Kazue’s \u003cem\u003eSelected Poems\u003c\/em\u003e (2021), both with Vagabond Press. Her recent books of translation and critical essays include \u003cem\u003eTamura Ryūichi, on the Life and Work of a 20th Century Master\u003c\/em\u003e (co-ed. Wayne Miller); \u003cem\u003eThe Art of Being Alone: Tanikawa Shuntarō\u003c\/em\u003e,\u003cem\u003e Poems 1952 – 2009; Collected Haiku of Yosa Buson\u003c\/em\u003e (with W.S. Merwin); \u003cem\u003ePioneers of Modern Japanese Poetry,\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eButterfly\u003c\/em\u003e by Kashiwagi Mari. She lives in the United States.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eInuo Taguchi, \u003cem\u003eHaydn Morning\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cbr\u003eTranslated by Translated by Takako Lento\u003cbr\u003e2023. 148mm x 210mm. 64pp. \u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eISBN 978-1-925735-47-5\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eRelease: February 2023.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Vagabond Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42830476443805,"sku":"","price":25.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0182\/8349\/products\/Taguchi_cover.png?v=1670208176","url":"https:\/\/vagabondpress.net\/de\/products\/taguchi-inuo-haydn-morning","provider":"Vagabond Press","version":"1.0","type":"link"}