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From Beijing, to Shanghai, Taipei, New York, Tokyo and on, his poetry navigates the nodal points of transnational culture, exploring the complexity and disjunctions of the contemporary moment while ‘trapped in the supermarket of language’. His poetry sings in the junctures and disjunctions of the cosmopolitan and the mundane, the limits of emotion and the irrepressible nature of desire with a subtle surrealism and muted and deft humour. Yan Jun is a distinctive new voice on the international scene; the penetrating strangeness of his poetry collapses boundaries and borders, bringing the other, the global and the everyday into intimate proximity.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eYou Jump to Another Dream is a refreshing breeze of a book, alive with yearning and exuberance, moving in its emotion and care.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e— William Lychack\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eYan Jun\u003c\/strong\u003e was born in Lanzhou, China where he began writing at age 14. He graduated from Northwest Normal University with a degree in Chinese Literature in 1995. He now lives and works in Beijing, where he has made a name for himself principally as an underground music critic, organizer, producer, and experimental sound artist. His work has been translated into English, German, Dutch, and French. He has published three collections and attended the Rotterdam International Poetry Festival as well as the Berlin International Poetry Festival. You Jump to Another Dream is his first full-length collection in English.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eGlenn Stowell \u003c\/strong\u003e(editor \u0026amp; translator) was born in Massachusetts, United States of America. He began studying Chinese at Phillips Academy in Andover and continued through college at Wesleyan University. 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Her first published book of verse was \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eMizu no Machi kara Arukidashite \u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e(I Began to Walk from the Water Town) which was released by a major publisher of poetry in 1988. Her second volume of poetry was \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eSeikasai\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e (Fruit and Vegetable Festival) published in 1991. Her third volume of poetry \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eEien ni Konai Basu\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e(The Bus that Never Comes), published in 1997 and was awarded the 15th Gendaishi Hanatsubaki Prize (Modern Poetry Camellia Prize). Her following book of verse \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eMottomo Kannohtekina Heya\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e (The Most Sensuous Room) was published in 2000 and awarded the 30th Takami Jun Literary Prize. Then followed two more books of verse, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eYoakemae Juppun\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e (Ten Minutes before Dawn) and \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eAme Otoko, Yama Otoko, Mame o Hiku Otoko\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e (Rain Men, Mountain Men and Men Who Mill Coffee Beans) both published in 2001. In 2003 Masayo’s first selected poems appeared.\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cspan\u003eShuntaro Tanikawa has been a phenomenon in Japan since the publication of his first collection, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eAlone in Two Billion Light Years\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, in 1952. 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Her four major poetry collections were published between 1959 and 1984 and were awarded a number of literary prizes including the Mr H. Prize and the Tumura Toshiko Prize. In addition to poetry, Ishigaki has also written several volumes of essays. A leading contemporary poet, Isaka Yohko, describes Ishigaki’s poetry as “contemptuous of arrogance and power” and as possessing a universal quality in her exploration of the quotidian crises of her domestic life.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cem\u003eLeith Morton\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e was formerly senior lecturer in Japanese at the University of Sydney and foundation Professor of Japanese at the University of Newcastle. 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Among his scripts are those for three of Lino Brocka’s best films, \u003cem\u003eMy Country\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eJaguar\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eOrapronobis\u003c\/em\u003e, and films by other highly regarded directors of the New Wave. He has received much public recognition for his screenwriting, including the Aruna Vesedev Lifetime Achievement Award in 2008.  His first book of poems, \u003cem\u003eAng Mga Kagilagilalas na Pakikipagsapalaran ni Juan de la Cruz\u003c\/em\u003e (The Amazing Adventures of Juan de la Cruz), came out in 1979. Having begun with poems in fixed forms or comic internal rhyming or both, he has become freer in recent work, which evokes the texture of daily life in the megacity. His disillusioned irony, his moral realism, underplays his sympathies.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eRio Alma\u003c\/strong\u003e came from a family of peasant farmers in the province of Bulacan, near Manila. 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He published his first poems while still at school, studied Chinese at Beijing Normal University, and became a noted figure among China’s university student poets. He has worked on literary magazines, as a TV presenter and independent publisher, and is now an assistant professor at the Xi’an International Studies University.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cspan\u003eBorn in 1965, in Fenghua, Zhejiang, \u003cstrong\u003eShu Cai\u003c\/strong\u003e was originally Chen Shucai. He graduated with a BA in French literature from the Department of French Language and Literature, Beijing Foreign Languages University in 1987. From 1990 to 1994, he worked as a diplomat in the Chinese Embassy in Senegal and has since been working as a research fellow in Foreign Literature Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. He won the Medal of Academic Palm Knight in France in 2008. His publications include such collections of poetry as \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eSolitaire \u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e(China, 1997) and \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eShort Poems by Shu Cai\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e (Hong Kong, 2004) and his translations of French literature include \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eA Selection of Poems by Pierre Reverdy\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e (China, 2002), \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eSelected Poems by René Char\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e (China, 2002) and \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eSelected Poems by Nine French Poets \u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e(Shanghai, 2009).\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eYang Xie\u003c\/strong\u003e, born in 1972 in Zhejiang, China, is an award-winning poet whose poems have been published in China, Australia and America in \u003ci\u003ethe Age, Kenyon Review \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eIndiana Review\u003c\/i\u003e a few years ago.  \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eOuyang Yu\u003c\/strong\u003e, now based in Melbourne, came to Australia in early 1991 and, by 2013, has published 71 books of poetry, fiction, non-fiction, literary translation and literary criticism in the English and Chinese languages. 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Translated from Vietnamese by Lê Đình Nhất Lang, Thúy Anh Nguyễn, Kaitlin Rees, Jacob I. Evans, Lưu Diệu Vân \u0026amp; Nguyễn Tiên Hoàng.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cimg src=\"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0182\/8349\/files\/luudieuvan_small.jpg?83\" alt=\"\"\u003e\u003cimg src=\"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0182\/8349\/files\/L_u_Melan_small.JPG?84\" alt=\"\"\u003e\u003cimg src=\"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0182\/8349\/files\/NhaThuyen-150x150_small.jpg?84\" alt=\"\"\u003e\u003cimg src=\"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0182\/8349\/files\/images_small.jpeg?85\" alt=\"\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLưu Diệu Vân\u003c\/strong\u003e is a Toronto-based poet. Her poems \u003cem\u003e47 Minutes After 7 \u003c\/em\u003ewas published by Van Nghe Publisher in 2010. Her short fiction was published in \u003cem\u003eThe Transparent Greenness of Grass\u003c\/em\u003e by Tre Publishing House in 2012. She  is currently an editor with the online literary magazine \u003cem\u003edamau.org \u003c\/em\u003eand content editor of the cultural and lifestyle\u003cem\u003e VietSun Magazine.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLưu Mêlan\u003c\/strong\u003e was born in 1989, in Ninh Thuận province in Southern Vietnam. Her poems have appeared on tienve.org and damau.org. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eNhã Thuyên\u003c\/strong\u003e is a Hanoi-based poet. Her poems and short stories have appeared in \u003cspan\u003etalawas.org\u003c\/span\u003e, damau.org, tienve.org and RHINO poetry. She has published three books of poems and short fictions: \u003cem\u003eWriting\u003c\/em\u003e (2008), \u003cem\u003eThe Pinky\u003c\/em\u003e (2011) and \u003cem\u003eThe Edge of the Abyss\u003c\/em\u003e (2011). Her most recent project, \u003cem\u003eUnderground Voices\u003c\/em\u003e, sponsored by Arts Network Asia (ANA),  looks into the marginalization in Vietnamese contemporary poetry, avant-garde poets in Post-Renovation period.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eNguyễn Tiên Hoàng\u003c\/strong\u003e is a Melbourne-based poet. 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Philosophical, international in orientation, structurally innovative, and fantastical in their crisp, sensual details, Yoshida’s stories might have been conceived through some wormhole conflation of Jorge Luis Borges and Bruno Schulz. She is that good and the stories are that intense. Her consistently understated endings are like slow-mo detonations. Long after you put her book down, her words will be turning the ordinary upside down. And commonplace animals, dear reader, will never look quite the same to you.” Forrest Gander\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eKyoko Yoshida is a fiction writer and translator living in Kyoto. Her translation, with Forrest Gander, of Kiwao Nomura’s Spectacle \u0026amp; Pigsty won the 2012 Best Translated Book Award in Poetry in the United States.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eKyoko Yoshida\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eDisorientalism\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003eVagabond Press. 192pp. RRP$24.95\u003cbr\u003eISBN 978-1-922181-17-6\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCover image: ©Takanori Ishizuka ©Dokuro Kogyo Untitled, 2013, 240 x 280 x 300 cm, urethane, latex, TV monitor and others at Dokuyo Stationery shop, Tokyo. 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These are poems of prayers, and we are undone and done with these poems.” Mariko Nagai \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“Something both earthy and transcendent about these poems renders the reader breathless. Dinah Roma has crafted ‘oracles out of love.’ Oracles of the body: from its ‘undulations of desire’ to its ‘last labor’—and our own bodies are co-opted into this oracle making. Into retrieving after loss ‘The phantom of a limb. 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The introduction situates the poems of Mya Kabyar, Tin Nwan Lwin and Khaing Mar Kyaw Zaw within a historical and cultural context and explores their significance in Burmese poetry. The three poets provide alternative voices to the dominant culture of Burmese poetry because of their ethnic minority status or location in the country's troubled periphery. The featured poets are part of diverse literary communities that have emerged within and in response to Myanmar’s decades-long experience of dictatorship and civil war. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMya Kabyar\u003c\/strong\u003e (b. 1974) was born in Palewa, Chin state. He grew up and finished high school in Chin state, then studied philosophy and graduated from Rangoon University. Mya Kabyar began writing when he was in high school, influenced by Burmese postmodern poetry. His first poem on the depiction of Chin land was published in a student magazine in 1990. 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She worked as a primary school teacher and later joined the Karen insurgency, active in the women’s movement and later in indigenous media and publishing. In the borderlands, Khaing Mar began writing poetry and fiction, publishing her work in a Burmese newspapers and journals based in exile. From a precarious exile in Thailand, Khaing Mar was able to write poetry free from the Burmese censorship board and the risk of imprisonment faced by dissident poets inside the country. From Thailand, Khaing Mar was able to access a more open audience for politically tinged poetry and was able to publish her first books of poetry and short stories. Khaing Mar now lives in the USA, where she has continued to publish Burmese language poetry and prose. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"Apple-style-span\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eViolet Cho\u003c\/strong\u003e is a Burmese translator and writer living in exile. 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Her father worked on the cargo boats plying the Yangtze, and she grew up in the lower strata of society. Her career as a poet began with the publication of her \u003cem\u003eCycle of Poems\u003c\/em\u003e in a workers’ literary magazine, and in 1988 she published her first collection, \u003cem\u003eBird of Paradise\u003c\/em\u003e. After relocating to London, her poem “Poetry and Fleeing for One’s Life” won the UK Chinese Poetry Prize in 1991, and she went on to win a number of poetry prizes in Hong Kong and Taiwan. She then went on to establish herself as a prize-winning novelist for works that have been translated into many languages and turned into TV series. 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He is the translator with Tony Prince of \u003ci\u003eEight Contemporary Chinese Poets \u003c\/i\u003e(Wild Peony, 2006), and with Simon Patton of \u003ci\u003eStarve the Poets!: Selected Poems by Yi Sha\u003c\/i\u003e (Bloodaxe, 2008). His recent publications include his translation of Lu Xun’s \u003ci\u003eRen zhi lishi \u003c\/i\u003e(History of humanity; \u003ci\u003eRenditions\u003c\/i\u003e, 80, 2013) and his essay “Subjectivity and Innovation in Contemporary Chinese Poetry, II” (\u003ci\u003eThe Journal of the Oriental Society of Australia\u003c\/i\u003e, 44, 2012). He lives with his family in Sydney.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eTony Prince\u003c\/b\u003e graduated with a BA and PhD in Chinese Studies from the University of Sydney, and subsequently spent 6 years teaching and studying in Taiwan and Japan. He afterwards returned to the University of Sydney to take up a lectureship there, teaching Chinese language, literature and thought for the next 28 years. 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As in her novels Hong Ying does not baulk at exploring female sexuality. She, as author, can only re-present the characters of her novels in accordance with how she perceives them: as a woman. However her poetry is highly personal, shedding light on her personal life, including her own sexuality and sexual experiences. Female sexuality and experiences are addressed with spontaneity and naturalness, authenticating the fact that such experiences are natural human behaviour. 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Throughout this book, Zang Di explores what it means to struggle at the points of conflict between Western influence and Chinese classical traditions, finding that “the Du Fu in me always goes to the international post-xyz gatherings without telling the Shakespeare in me.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThis is astonishing work, hovering somewhere between the tactility of the French surrealists and the upside-down beauty of the best Chinese work: consistently surprising in thought and language, and the translations gorgeously realized. \u003c\/i\u003e—Jeffrey Levine\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe selection gives a perfect representation of an important contemporary Chinese poet who, at his best, achieves bewitching subtlety and haunting beauty. Now, thanks to Ming Di and Neil Aitken’s exquisite translation, these poems have come to life in the English language. The chronological arrangement of the poems illuminates the modulating nuances in the poet’s craft over the years, and enables the reader to see the vicissitudes of his inner life through the many transformations. \u003c\/i\u003e—Xiaofei Tian\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"Apple-style-span\"\u003e\u003cem class=\"\"\u003eZang Di offers us a lyric moment in which the whole world stands still… I love this book “of loneliness \/ that persisted many years,” I love that even hatred here is mysterious, that snow bursts death. This is a book where the quiet opens: and we sit on the ruins as if sitting in a chair in the open field. It is a book of lyrics “bruised by Nietzsche,” a book where “Wittgenstein is a bird,” where even slicing cucumbers is a metaphysical exercise. Zang Di is a poet to live with, yes. But, more than that: Zang Di is a poet to pray with. 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He has been chief editor of \u003ci\u003eChinese Poetry Review\u003c\/i\u003e and has edited many important series of poetry books in the country. He has won many national literary awards including “The Critic of the Year” from Southern Literary Journal (2005),  Ten Best Young Poets (2005), Ten Best Poets (2006), Ten Best Critics (2007), the Grand Poetry Award from the Pearl River International Poetry Festival (2007), First Literary Award from Yangtze Literature (2008),“Poet of the Year” from the Media Chinese International (2009), first Su Manshu Poetry Award (2010), and Poetry Award from the Arts Beijing (2013). Some of his poems have been translated into other languages and published widely. He has been invited to many international literary festivals and as a special guest at the opening night of the Berlin Poesiefestival (2015). \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Translators\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eMing Di\u003c\/b\u003e is a Chinese poet and translator, author of six collections of poetry in Chinese and four books of translation. She taught Chinese at Boston University before moving to California where she resides now. She edited and co-translated \u003ci\u003eNew Cathay: Contemporary Chinese poetry\u003c\/i\u003e (Tupelo Press, 2013, co-published by Poetry Foundation); she also co-translated \u003ci\u003eEmpty Chairs\u003c\/i\u003e (Graywolf Press, 2015). She received Henry Luce Foundation Fellowships for translation through Vermont Studio Center in 2013 and 2015.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eNeil Aitken\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of \u003ci\u003eThe Lost Country of Sight \u003c\/i\u003e(winner of the 2007 Philip Levine Prize for Poetry) and \u003ci\u003eBabbage’s Dream\u003c\/i\u003e (Sundress Press 2016), as well as the founding editor of \u003ci\u003eBoxcar Poetry Review\u003c\/i\u003e, and a contributing editor for \u003ci\u003ePoetry East West\u003c\/i\u003e. A Canadian of Chinese and Scottish descent, he presently lives in Los Angeles where he recently completed a PhD in Literature and Creative Writing at the University of Southern California.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eCover image: © Xiaoze Xie, \u003ci\u003eChinese Library No. 35\u003c\/i\u003e (detail), 2007. Oil on canvas, 48 x 66.5 inches. 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He has published several books on literary and art criticism. His creative writings have appeared in many overseas and Australian journals and anthologies, including \u003ci\u003eTienve\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eKunapipi.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cb\u003ePhan Quỳnh Trâm\u003c\/b\u003e came to Australia as an overseas student at the University of New South Wales in 2000 and is now living and working in Sydney. Her translations, short stories, essays and poems, written in Vietnamese and English, have been published in Ajar,  Kunapipi and Tienve literary webzine.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cb\u003eNhã Thuyên\u003c\/b\u003e is a poet, a writer, and sometimes an amateur filmmaker. She is the author of several books of poetry and flash fiction and some tiny picture books for children. 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Currently, he writes a fortnight column in the Arts and Culture section of \u003ci\u003eThe Philippine Star,\u003c\/i\u003e one of the country’s major broadsheets, and is finishing his Master of Fine Arts degree in Creative Writing at the De La Salle University. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eMookie Katigbak-Lacuesta\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of two books of poetry, \u003ci\u003eThe Proxy Eros\u003c\/i\u003e (Anvil Publishing, 2008) and \u003ci\u003eBurning Houses\u003c\/i\u003e (UST Publishing House, 2013). She has won prizes for her work, most recently first place at the Carlos Palanca Memorial Awards in 2014. She is the editor and co-creator of Metro Serye, a fold-out zine featuring new fiction, poetry, and graphic art. She is the wife of fictionist Sarge Lacuesta, and co-producer of Lucas Lacuesta, her best work to date, and ever. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAllan Justo Pastrana \u003c\/b\u003eholds a Masters degree in Creative Writing (Poetry) from the University of the Philippines, Diliman. He finished his Bachelors degree at the University of Santo Tomas Conservatory of Music (Music Literature and Piano Performance). He is a two-time Thomasian Poet of the Year and a recipient of the Rector’s Literary Award during his college days. He bagged the Grand Prize in the English Division of the Maningning Miclat Award for Poetry in 2005 and won for the Essay in the 2007 Don Carlos Palanca Memorial Awards. His first book of poems is Body Haul (UST Publishing House, 2011), which won the 2013 Madrigal-Gonzalez Best First Book Award. Pastrana teaches Literature at Miriam College and Music at the Ateneo de Manila University.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eDinah Roma\u003c\/b\u003e is Professor of Literature and Creative Writing at De La Salle University, Manila where is she also Chair of its Department of Literature. She is the author of three books of poetry: \u003ci\u003eA Feast of Origins \u003c\/i\u003e(UST 2004), which won the 2004 Philippine National Book Award for Poetry in English, and two other major awards; \u003ci\u003eGeographies of Light\u003c\/i\u003e (UST 2011), whose core collection won third prize in the Carlos Palanca Award for Poetry in English in 2007, was a finalist in the 2011 Philippine National Book Award for Poetry; and, her most recent collection \u003ci\u003eNaming the Ruins\u003c\/i\u003e (2014) published by Vagabond Press was launched in Sydney, Singapore, Davao, and Manila.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003ciframe style=\"width:550px;height:350px\" src=\"https:\/\/online.anyflip.com\/wuapt\/ptyg\/index.html\" seamless=\"seamless\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" allowtransparency=\"true\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"\u003e\u003c\/iframe\u003e","brand":"Vagabond Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":3064185604,"sku":"","price":20.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0182\/8349\/products\/VagabondPress_AP8.jpg?v=1434344424"},{"product_id":"trilingual-renshi","title":"Trilingual Renshi","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e四元康祐 \u003c\/span\u003eYasuhiro Yotsumoto\u003cspan\u003e (日\/\u003c\/span\u003eJapanese\u003cspan\u003e) \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e明迪 \u003c\/span\u003eMing Di\u003cspan\u003e（中\/\u003c\/span\u003eChinese\u003cspan\u003e）\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e金惠\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e顺‭ ‬\u003c\/span\u003eKim Hyesoon\u003cspan\u003e（韓\/\u003c\/span\u003eKorean\u003cspan\u003e）\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e谷川俊太郎 \u003c\/span\u003eShuntar\u003cspan\u003eo \u003c\/span\u003eTanikawa\u003cspan\u003e（日\/\u003c\/span\u003eJapanese\u003cspan\u003e)\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRenshi is a modern version of the traditional Japanese linked poem, Renku. As the 70th anniversary for the end of the World War II approaches and the politicians prepare the ‘historic speech’ to be delivered on August 15, 2015, four poets from Japan, China and Korea decide to have a Trilingual Renshi session, linking themselves to each other through translation and e-mails. The result is a mandala of 36 poems with the shared themes of ‘Sea’, ‘Rice’, and ‘Sun’. It is at once a celebration of humanity, which transcends nation, race, and even language, and the poetic action for the “resistance against the world’s entropy.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCover image: \u003ci\u003eToday’s Levitation 01\/01\/2011\u003c\/i\u003e ©Natsumi Hayashi, courtesy MEM, Tokyo.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAugust, 2015. ISBN 978-1-922181-44-2. 64pp.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eYasuhiro Yotsumoto\u003c\/b\u003e, born in 1959 in Osaka, has published 10 poetry collections, one novel, and several books of translation and criticism in Japanese, and English translation of poetry \u003ci\u003eFamily Room\u003c\/i\u003e (Vagabond Press, 2010).  Yasuhiro’s first experience of Renshi was \u003ci\u003eShizuoka Renshi\u003c\/i\u003e in 2003 with Makoto Ooka, Masayo Koike, J. Bernlef, and Willem van Toorn.  He also held two sessions with Shuntaro\u003cspan\u003e-\u003c\/span\u003e Tanikawa, Hiromi Ito, Wakako Kaku and Jerome Rothenberg in Kumamoto in 2008 and 2010, and another Shizuoka session with Kiwao Nomura, Wakako Kaku, Aki Ooka, and Tian Yuan in 2010.  In the one-on-one Taishi (\u003cspan\u003e対詩\u003c\/span\u003e) format, Yasuhiro collaborated with Masayo Koike (\u003cspan\u003e『詩と生活』\u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eLife vs Poetry\u003c\/i\u003e, Shichosha, 2005) and with Inuo Taguchi (\u003cspan\u003e『泥の暦』\u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eMuddy Calendar\u003c\/i\u003e, Shichosha, 2008).  Based in Munich, Germany, where he has lived for 21 years, Yasuhiro serves as editor for a Japanese poetry magazine ‘Beagle’ and for Poetry International Rotterdam. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eMing Di \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan class=\"Apple-style-span\"\u003e明迪\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e(aka Mindy), born in China, is a poet and translator, author of six books of poetry in Chinese. Some of her poems have been translated into other languages: \u003ci\u003eRiver Merchant’s Wife\u003c\/i\u003e (Marick Press\/USA, 2012), \u003ci\u003eLuna fracturada\u003c\/i\u003e (Valparaíso\/Spain, 2014), \u003ci\u003eHistoire de famille\u003c\/i\u003e (Transignum\/France, 2015) and \u003ci\u003eLivre de sept vies\u003c\/i\u003e (forthcoming in France). She has translated four books of poetry\/poetry criticism into Chinese and co-translated four volumes of poetry from Chinese into English including \u003ci\u003eThe Book of Cranes\u003c\/i\u003e (Vagabond Press 2015) and \u003ci\u003eEmpty Chairs\u003c\/i\u003e (Graywolf Press 2015).  She edited and co-translated \u003ci\u003eNew Cathay: Contemporary Chinese Poetry\u003c\/i\u003e (Tupelo Press, co-published by the Poetry Foundation, 2013). She went to Boston College and Boston University for graduate study in linguistics, taught Chinese at BU before settling in California. At present she divides her time between California and Beijing. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eKim Hyesoon, \u003c\/b\u003eone of the most prominent Korean poets, was born in 1955, South Korea. She debuted in 1979 and has ten collections of poetry published by Munji: \u003ci\u003eFrom Another Star\u003c\/i\u003e (1981), \u003ci\u003eFather’s Scarecrow\u003c\/i\u003e (1984), \u003ci\u003eThe Hell of a Certain Star\u003c\/i\u003e (1987), \u003ci\u003eOur Negative Picture\u003c\/i\u003e (1991), \u003ci\u003eMy Upanishad, Seoul\u003c\/i\u003e (1994), \u003ci\u003ePoor Love Machine\u003c\/i\u003e (1997), \u003ci\u003eTo the Calendar Factory Supervisor\u003c\/i\u003e (2000), \u003ci\u003eA Glass of Red Mirror\u003c\/i\u003e (2004), \u003ci\u003eYour First\u003c\/i\u003e (2008), and \u003ci\u003eSorrowtoothpaste, Mirrorcream\u003c\/i\u003e (2011). Her poetry in translation include: \u003ci\u003eWhen the Plug Gets Unplugged\u003c\/i\u003e (Tinfish, 2005), \u003ci\u003eAnxiety of Words\u003c\/i\u003e: \u003ci\u003eContemporary Poetry by Korean Women\u003c\/i\u003e (Zephyr, 2006), \u003ci\u003eMommy Must Be a Fountain of Feathers\u003c\/i\u003e (Action Books, 2008), \u003ci\u003eAll the Garbage of the World, Unite!\u003c\/i\u003e (Action Books, 2011), \u003ci\u003eSorrowtoothpaste Mirrowcream\u003c\/i\u003e (Action Books, 2014), and \u003ci\u003eI’m OK, I’m Pig \u003c\/i\u003e(Bloodaxe Books, 2014). This is her very first participation in writing of Renshi.   \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cb\u003eShuntaro \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cb\u003eTanikawa\u003c\/b\u003e was born in 1931 in Tokyo. The most widely read and critically important poet in today’s Japan, Tanikawa is one of the pioneers who have brought the traditional Renku (\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e連句)\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e back to the modern practice as Renshi (\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e連詩\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e). Together with the members of poetry group \u003ci\u003eKai\u003c\/i\u003e (Oar), he published \u003ci\u003eKai Renshi  \u003c\/i\u003ein 1979. Tanikawa’s Renshi collaborations soon went beyond Japan to the foreign poets, as can be seen in \u003ci\u003eVier Scharniere Mit Zunge\u003c\/i\u003e, with H.C. Artmann, Oscar Pastior, and Makoto Ooka (Berlin: Verlag Klaus G. Renner, 1988).  His recent activities in this area include one-on-one Renshi, or Taishi (\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e対詩\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e), with Swiss poet Jürg Halter (\u003ci\u003eSprechendes Wasser\u003c\/i\u003e, Bern: Sessions, 2012), and another Taishi with Korean poet Shin Kyeong-nim (\u003ci\u003eTake time to enjoy Makgoeolli because we don’t drink it just to get drunk\u003c\/i\u003e, Tokyo: CUON, 2015) . \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cb\u003eDon Mee Choi\u003c\/b\u003e (Translator of Kim’s Renshi) is the author of \u003ci\u003eThe Morning News Is Exciting\u003c\/i\u003e (Action Books, 2010), and translator of contemporary Korean women poets. She has received a Whiting Writers Award and the 2012 Lucien Stryk Translation Prize. Her translation of Kim Hyesoon’s \u003ci\u003eSorrowtoothpaste Mirrorcream\u003c\/i\u003e (Action Books, 2014) was shortlisted for the 2015 PEN Poetry in Translation Award. Her most recent works include a chapbook, \u003ci\u003ePetite Manifesto\u003c\/i\u003e (Vagabond Press, 2014), and a pamphlet, \u003ci\u003eFreely Frayed, \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e六\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003ci\u003e=q, Race=Nation\u003c\/i\u003e (Wave Books, 2014). Her second book of \u003c\/span\u003epoems, \u003ci\u003eHardly War\u003c\/i\u003e, is forthcoming from Wave Books in April 2016\u003cspan\u003e.  \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\n\u003ciframe style=\"width:550px;height:350px\" src=\"https:\/\/online.anyflip.com\/wuapt\/glgk\/index.html\" seamless=\"seamless\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" allowtransparency=\"true\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"\u003e\u003c\/iframe\u003e","brand":"Vagabond Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":3064384580,"sku":"","price":25.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0182\/8349\/products\/VagabondPress_Renshi.jpg?v=1434355031"},{"product_id":"eliza-vitri-handayani-from-now-on-everything-will-be-different","title":"Eliza Vitri Handayani, From Now On Everything Will Be Different","description":"\u003cp\u003eAs democratic reforms swept Indonesia in the late nineties, the nation’s young generation asked themselves: what does it mean to be free? Spanning fifteen years, this novel follows the struggles and hopes, loves and disappointments of two young Indonesians who came of age during Reformasi. Following the entwined paths of Julita and Rizky as they struggle to break free from a pattern of repeated disappointments and define themselves, Handayani presents a portrait of the changing and complex reality of contemporary Indonesia, and of the younger generation born out of revolution. From Now On Everything Will Be Different is a compelling study of freedom and love, community and conformity, told with humour, sensuality and a subtly sharp political intelligence.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“Handayani represents a new dawn of the Indonesian novel.”\u003cbr\u003e—Manneke Budiman\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“A finely choreographed love story that shadows the larger changes and challenges of life in contemporary Indonesia. It charts the fever and the friction of a relationship, exploring conflicted identities in a complex world, where social pressures push against emerging independence and new freedoms. Sharply designed, intoxicating, reverberant.” —Nicholas Jose\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“The protagonists are complicated and full of life, a boy and a girl becoming a man and a woman, and struggling to do it with as much honesty as they can. This novel is about what it is like to come of age at the end of a revolution.” —Ruby J. Murray\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“The novel is set against the uncertain politics of contemporary Indonesia, the excesses and failures of which lend a poignant urgency to the characters’ equally clumsy attempts at forging an honest and enduring relationship; as democracy goes (or remains elusive), so does love.”—Jose Dalisay Jr.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEliza Vitri Handayani on the Ubud launch being banned and censorship in \u003cem\u003e\u003ca href=\"http:\/\/www.insideindonesia.org\/after-98-censorship-compromises-and-resistance\"\u003eInside Indonesia\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\nEliza Vitri Handayani\u003cbr\u003eFROM NOW ON EVERYTHING WILL BE DIFFERENT\u003cbr\u003e160pp. ISBN 978-1-922181-47-3.  Release date October 2015. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cimg alt=\"\" src=\"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0182\/8349\/files\/Eliza_Vitri_Handayani_medium.jpg?14853142074908453507\" style=\"margin-right: 2px; float: left;\"\u003eThis is \u003cstrong\u003eEliza Vitri Handayani\u003c\/strong\u003e’s first novel to be published in English. She has published short stories, essays and translations in leading Indonesian literary outlets as well as in the Asia Literary Review, Griffith Review and Asymptote Journal. In 2004 she won an Anugerah Adikarya from the Indonesian Publishers Association, for best young-adult book. She is the founder of InterSastra, an Indonesian literary translation initiative.\n\n\u003ciframe style=\"width:550px;height:350px\" src=\"https:\/\/online.anyflip.com\/wuapt\/nekq\/index.html\" seamless=\"seamless\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" allowtransparency=\"true\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"\u003e\u003c\/iframe\u003e","brand":"Vagabond Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":3246945476,"sku":"","price":25.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0182\/8349\/products\/9781922181473-Perfect_front.jpg?v=1435021566"},{"product_id":"nha-thuyen-words-breathe-creatures-of-elsewhere","title":"Nhã Thuyên, words breathe, creatures of elsewhere","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"page\" title=\"Page 118\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"layoutArea\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"column\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"page\" title=\"Page 2\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"layoutArea\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"column\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eFor Nhã Thuyên, to write poetry is to listen to the lives of words, to sense their heartbeats, to admire their faces. It is an action that is passionate, overflowing, and at the same time, insecure and restless. In Nhã Thuyên’s understanding, the word, as an alive being, is easily vulnerable.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"page\" title=\"Page 2\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"layoutArea\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"column\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eNhã Thuyên’s poetry is that of one who thrusts herself into an infinite confusion, who doubts the inevitability of every border, who wonders at the clarity of structures. The confusion, doubts, and wonders inside this collection of poetry, are in fact what transform into a great pleasure for the writer, and which in turn, unfurl into a pleasure for the readers, inviting them to play together in the space of uncertainty, confusion, ambiguity, among the drifting words, rhythms, and imaginings. \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"section\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"layoutArea\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"column\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eNhã Thuyên’s poetry is also that of one who feels a forever urge to disintegrate the self, to break apart the solidity of the self, to be able to see the strangers, the other beings in the dark depths of the self. Nhã Thuyên is listening closely with an acute desire to be in conversation with the creatures of elsewhere, the others. A craving as innocently eager as a child, curious and full of amazed energy, while at the same time as painfully urgent as a person who feels the eternal uncertainty of identity. A craving that, in the end, gives poetry itself a possibility to stir the human heart. For after all, can poetry be anything if not this exposure? \u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e– H\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eả\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003ei Ng\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eọ\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003ec, literary critic\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eNhã Thuyên\u003c\/strong\u003e (born 1986) has authored several books of poetry and short fiction including \u003cem\u003eWriting\u003c\/em\u003e (2008), \u003cem\u003eThe Pinky\u003c\/em\u003e (2011), \u003cem\u003eThe edge of the Abyss\u003c\/em\u003e (2011), \u003cem\u003eThe Transparent green of grass\u003c\/em\u003e (co-authored, 2012) and some \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003etiny books for children. Her series of essays, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cem\u003eUnderground Voices\u003c\/em\u003e (2011- 2013), sponsored by the Arts Network Asia, examines marginalization in Vietnamese contemporary poetry and the avant-garde poets of its Post-Renovation period. Translations of her poetry and writing appear in \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ca href=\"http:\/\/vagabondpress.net\/collections\/asia-pacific-writing\/products\/poems-of-luu-dieuvan-luu-melan-nha-thuyen\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cem\u003ePoems of Lưu Diệu Vân, Lưu Mêlan \u0026amp; Nhã Thuyên\u003c\/em\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cspan\u003eedited and introduced \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eby Nguyễn Tiên Hoàng (Vagabond Press, 2013) and have appeared \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eor are forthcoming in the journals of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eRHINO Poetry \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eand Asymptote. words breathe, creatures of elsewhere (\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003etừ thở, những người lạ\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e) is her second full length book of poetry and her first full length book in english translation. Nhã Thuyên is co-editor of the book of three poets \u003ca href=\"http:\/\/vagabondpress.net\/collections\/asia-pacific-writing\/products\/poems-of-le-van-tai-nguy-n-ton-hi-t-phan-qu-nh-tram\"\u003e\u003cem\u003ePoems \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003ca href=\"#temp_created_link\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eof Lê Văn Tài, Nguyễn Tôn Hiệt, \u0026amp; Phan Quỳnh Trâm \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cspan\u003e(Vagabond Press, 2015). With Kaitlin Rees, she currently co-edits \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAJAR\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, a bilingual literary \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eand art journal-press based in Hanoi, an online, printed space for poetic \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eexchange. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eKaitlin Rees\u003c\/strong\u003e (translator), born in the year of the buffalo in Wampsville, New york, translates Vietnamese poetry and makes her own in english sometimes \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003etoo. Her translations of Nhã Thuyên’s work have appeared in Vagabond \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePress’s 2013 \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePoems of Lưu Diệu Vân, Lưu Mêlan \u0026amp; Nhã Thuyên edited and introduced by Nguyễn Tiên Hoàng and the online journal \u003cem\u003eMasque\u0026amp;Spectacle\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, and are forthcoming in \u003cem\u003eAsymptote\u003c\/em\u003e. Kaitlin co-edits Ajar \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003ein Hanoi with Nhã Thuyên. Her artwork of poetry called \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eFragments of an Infinite Dictionary will have an exhibition in December 2015 in \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eZalaegerszeg, Hungary.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"column\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eNhã Thuyên, \u003cem\u003ewords breathe, creatures of elsewhere\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"column\"\u003e\n\u003cspan\u003e2015. 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In that labyrinth fact and fiction are tangled. Worlds intertwined with words. And those words present a chunk of a universe, which is incomplete and not entirely truthful, it hides some things that we do not yet know. The poems in this book are lifted off the Holy Books, The Old Testament.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe book is rendered with women who are present, alive, and weaving history along with the men, but in all those stories the women remain behind veils. Avianti Armand chose to rewrite the stories of 5 most intriguing, ambiguous, and treacherous women from it. This collection of poems is not an attempt to bring the women out of the labyrinth, but an invitation for us to meet them through other winding, twisted, and unpredictable paths.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e‘Fables taken from the ribs of archetypes, retold lusciously and reshaped with a necessary defiance, this book is an un-erasure, a journey of whimsy with a knife at your throat.’ Khairani Barokka\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e‘Armand's poetry has always been rendered by a double character: aesthetical as well as political, narrative as well as lyrical, doubting and then fulfilling.’  Zen Hae\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e‘Avianti Armand’s poems invite us to enter the beauty of the mysterious orifice  in the Book of Silence. With a perspective and ambiguity that disturbs reasons and imaginations, Avianti Armand has reconstructed and revived the historical women’s movements hidden behind biblical narratives.’ Joko Pinurbo\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e‘Avianti Armand’s feminist restagings of Old Testament scenarios are both vital and hypnotic. This is a powerful book that taps into something essential about women’s experience.’ Emily Stewart\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAvianti Armand\u003c\/b\u003e works as an architect since 1992. Her design, Rumah Kampung, won an award from the Indonesian Association of Architects in 2008. Her short story collection, \u003ci\u003eNegeri Para Peri\u003c\/i\u003e, came out in 2009, and one story, “Pada Suatu Hari Ada Ibu dan Radian”, was selected as Kompas Best Short Story. Her collection of poems \u003ci\u003ePerempuan Yang Dihapus Namanya\u003c\/i\u003e came out in 2010 and went on to win the Khatulistiwa Literary Award 2011. She is also the curator for Indonesia Pavilion in Venice Architecture Biennale 2014, and continues to do her curatorial works for architecture exhibitions until now. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan class=\"\"\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eEliza Vitri Handayani\u003c\/b\u003e’s first novel in English,\u003ca href=\"http:\/\/vagabondpress.net\/collections\/prose\/products\/eliza-vitri-handayani-from-now-on-everything-will-be-different\" target=\"_blank\"\u003e\u003ci\u003e From Now On Everything Will Be Different\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e, was published by Vagabond last year. She has published short pieces in leading Indonesian literary outlets as well as in the \u003ci\u003eAsia Literary Review, Griffith Review\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eWords without Borders, Exchanges Journal, Inside Indonesia. \u003c\/i\u003eShe is the founder and manager of InterSastra, an Indonesian literary translation project.\u003c\/span\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAvianti Armand, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eWomen Whose Names Were Erased \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eTranslated by Eliza Vitri Handayani\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003e 2018. 148mm x 210mm. 52pp. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eISBN 978-1-925735-05-5\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eRelease date: September 1, 2018\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ciframe style=\"width:550px;height:350px\" src=\"https:\/\/online.anyflip.com\/wuapt\/swnv\/index.html\" seamless=\"seamless\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" allowtransparency=\"true\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"\u003e\u003c\/iframe\u003e","brand":"Vagabond Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":14400611908,"sku":"","price":25.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0182\/8349\/products\/ARMAND_9781925735055-Perfect.jpg?v=1599978814"},{"product_id":"mookie-katigbak-lacuesta-in-collaboration-with-frances-cannon-tropicalia","title":"Mookie Katigbak-Lacuesta in collaboration with Frances Cannon, Tropicalia: Poems and Translations","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eTropicalia\u003c\/i\u003e, two writers, one Filipino and one American, set off on an unusual collaborative effort entailing the translation of one English to another English, allowing two different sensibilities to happen to the same language, the same content, and ultimately the same poem. Using Katigbak-Lacuesta’s existing text, Cannon approached the concept of translation as a creative act, more than as a transcriptive one. She responded to the text in a series of poems, which were then re-translated into paintings.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMookie\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cstrong\u003eKatigbak-Lacuesta\u003c\/strong\u003e is the author of two poetry collections: \u003cem\u003eThe Proxy Eros\u003c\/em\u003e (2008) and \u003cem\u003eBurning Houses\u003c\/em\u003e (2013). She obtained an MFA from the New School University in 2002, and has since taught in major universities in Manila, fronted a rock band, written feature articles, a libretto, and short fiction. She is the editor of Metro Serye, a fold-out zine featuring new poetry, fiction and graphic art in the Philippines. She also co-edited \u003cem\u003eFast Food Fiction Delivery: short short stories to go, an anthology of flash fiction\u003c\/em\u003e, in 2014. Widely awarded, she was the Filipino delegate to the 2012 Medellín Poetry Festival. In 2015, she completed a writing residency for the International Writing Program at the University of Iowa.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFrances\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cstrong\u003eCannon \u003c\/strong\u003eis a writer and artist currently pursuing a master’s degree in nonfiction and book arts at the Iowa Writer's Workshop, teaching literature and creative writing at the University of Iowa, and working as an editorial assistant to The Iowa Review. She was born in Utah and since then has bounced around living, making artwork, and writing, in Oregon, Maine, Montana, Vermont, California, France, Italy, and Guatemala. She received her bachelor's in poetry and printmaking at the University of Vermont, where she self-published several chapbooks of silkscreened prints and poems. She has also worked as an editorial intern and contributor at McSweeney's quarterly, The Believer, and The Lucky Peach. She has recently been published in Vice, The Examined Life Journal, Edible magazine, and Vol. 1 Brooklyn.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eMookie Katigbak-Lacuesta in collaboration with Frances Cannon,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eTropicalia: Poems and Translations. \u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e2016. 68pp. ISBN 978-1-922181-48-0\u003cbr\u003eRelease date: TBC.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ciframe style=\"width:550px;height:350px\" src=\"https:\/\/online.anyflip.com\/wuapt\/gnkb\/index.html\" seamless=\"seamless\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" allowtransparency=\"true\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"\u003e\u003c\/iframe\u003e","brand":"Vagabond Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":14400812804,"sku":"","price":25.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0182\/8349\/products\/Tropicalia_Front_Cover.jpg?v=1455931167"},{"product_id":"van-mdec","title":"Lưu Diệu Vân, M of December","description":"\u003cp\u003eAs the universe merges into the self, Lưu Diệu Vân explores the self in the fragile context of the greater unknown. The urge to desire, to question, to comprehend, to throw off the imbalance of real and perceived observations, of public and private conversations, of exquisite beauty and potent logic, saturates this collection. \u003ci\u003eM of December\u003c\/i\u003e features all new poems, tracing the poet’s transition from an emotive youth to a formidable woman fighting for the freedom to make choices in her own universe.\u003c\/p\u003e\n“above all \u003cbr\u003ethe paranoia needs to be borderline at the terminal stage \u003cbr\u003especulating skills harnessed to the extreme \u003cbr\u003ethe man’s in moribund solitude \u003cbr\u003eadrift in this establishment of woo-words \u003cbr\u003ethe girl has colored skin and dark hair but pale virtues \u003cbr\u003emasturbating with perfunctory mind-mining...”\n\u003cdiv style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"padding-left: 120px;\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003efrom '\u003c\/span\u003ebecoming a professional soliloquist'\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“Rich in theme, with a brave and lively selection of imagery, Vân excels at incisive observation – at times tragic, and more often than not, very funny.” —Jennifer Mackenzie\u003ci\u003e, Cordite Poetry Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cimg alt=\"\" src=\"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0182\/8349\/files\/Luu_Dieu_Van_2_Photo_by_Kim_Bao_Tran_copy_medium.jpg?1761147552595211228\" style=\"float: left; margin-right: 5px;\"\u003eLưu Diệu Vân, born December 1979, is a poet, literary translator, and co-editor of the bilingual literary magazine damau.org. She received her Master’s Degree from the University of Massachusetts in 2009. Her bilingual poems, flash fictions, and translations have been published and appeared in numerous print literary journals and online magazines. Her publications include \u003ci\u003e47 Minutes After 7\u003c\/i\u003e (2010), \u003ci\u003eThe Transparent Greenness of Grass\u003c\/i\u003e (2012), \u003ci\u003ePoems\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003ci\u003e of Lưu Diệu Vân, Lưu Mêlan, \u0026amp; Nhã Thuyên\u003c\/i\u003e (2013).\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cspan style=\"line-height: 1.4;\"\u003eLưu Diệu Vân, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem style=\"line-height: 1.4;\"\u003eM of December\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e2016. 66pp. ISBN 978-1-922181-42-8\u003cbr\u003eRelease date: March 2016\n\n\u003ciframe style=\"width:550px;height:350px\" src=\"https:\/\/online.anyflip.com\/wuapt\/yqyg\/index.html\" seamless=\"seamless\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" allowtransparency=\"true\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"\u003e\u003c\/iframe\u003e","brand":"Vagabond Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":14400948996,"sku":"","price":25.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0182\/8349\/products\/LVD_front_cover.jpg?v=1455284988"},{"product_id":"poems-of-hiromi-ito-toshiko-hirata-takako-arai-asia-pacific-9","title":"Poems of Hiromi Itō, Toshiko Hirata \u0026 Takako Arai","description":"\u003cp\u003eTranslated from the Japanese by Jeffrey Angles\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe ninth volume in Vagabond Press's Asia Pacific Series.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis collection brings together the work of three of Japan’s most creative, innovative, and challenging contemporary poets. During the 1980s, Itō and Hirata quickly emerged as major new poetic voices, breaking taboos and writing about sexual desire, marital strife, pregnancy, childbirth, and motherhood in such direct and powerful ways that they sent shockwaves through the literary establishment. In recent years, Arai has emerged as a leader of the next generation of poets, writing about working-class women and their fates within the world of global capital. All three poets have rejected the stayed, polished language that dominates poetic discourse and instead have favored dramatic voices that are raw, powerful, and frequently quite dark. Socially engaged and poetically aware, these three are poised to become some of the most important poetic voices of the twenty-first century.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eITŌ\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cstrong\u003eHiromi \u003c\/strong\u003e(1955- ) emerged in the 1980s as the leading voice of Japanese women’s poetry with a series of sensational works that depicted women’s psychology, sexuality, and motherhood in fresh and dramatic new ways. In the late 1990s, she relocated to southern California, and since then, she has written a number of important, award-winning books about migrancy, relocation, identity, linguistic alienation, aging, and death.   A selection of her early work appears in \u003cem\u003eKilling Kanoko: Selected Poems of Hiromi Itō, \u003c\/em\u003etranslated by Jeffrey Angles\u003cem\u003e \u003c\/em\u003e(Action Books, 2009). Angles has also translated her wildly imaginative, book-length narrative poem \u003cem\u003eWild Grass on the Riverbank\u003c\/em\u003e (Action Books, 2015)\u003cem\u003e, \u003c\/em\u003ewhich won the 2006 Takami Jun Prize, which is awarded each year to an outstanding, innovative book of poetry.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eHIRATA Toshiko \u003c\/strong\u003e(1955-) is a Japanese poet and novelist. During the 1980s, she, along with Hiromi Itō, emerged as one of the foremost voices so-called “women’s boom” of poetry. Her poetry is known for its directness, black humor, and eagerness to treat the kinds of day-to-day subjects that many other poets tend to leave out of their work. \u003cem\u003eTāminaru \u003c\/em\u003e(\u003cem\u003eTerminal\u003c\/em\u003e), published in 1997 won the Doi Bansui Prize for poetry. She has also won the Hagiwara Sakutarō Prize for poetry for her 2004 collection \u003cem\u003eShi nanoka \u003c\/em\u003e(Poetry on the Seventh Day\/Is This Poetry?), in which she turns a description of what happens to her on the seventh day of each month into a poem (or anti-poem). In recent years, her eagerness to break the ordinary bounds of poetry has led her to start writing novels, many of which feature ordinary people caught in bizarre circumstances that lead them to question the traditional family system and the spots allotted to them in society. Among her novels are \u003cem\u003ePiano sando \u003c\/em\u003e(\u003cem\u003ePiano Sandwich\u003c\/em\u003e, 2001), \u003cem\u003eFutari nori \u003c\/em\u003e(\u003cem\u003eTwo on Board\u003c\/em\u003e, 2004), which won the Noma Literary Prize for New Writers, and \u003cem\u003eWatashi no akakute yawarakana bubun \u003c\/em\u003e(\u003cem\u003eMy Soft, Red Place\u003c\/em\u003e, 2007).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eARAI Takako \u003c\/strong\u003e(1966- ) comes from Kiryū City in Japan, a place known for textile production, and her father is the manager of a small, cottage-style weaving factory, which he established on his own property. At its height, the factory employed a few dozen people, the overwhelming majority of whom were women. Much of her work, especially Arai’s newest collection of poetry \u003cem\u003eBeds and Looms\u003c\/em\u003e [\u003cem\u003eBetto to shokki\u003c\/em\u003e] (Tokyo: Michitani, 2013), focuses on the lives of the women workers she saw while growing up in the factory. Much of Arai’s work is avant-garde, incorporating experimental stylistic features such as the incorporation of Gunma dialect, radical juxtaposition of images, and the frequent use of sentence fragments. At the same time, however, Arai’s poems are extremely socially engaged. A frequent theme of her work is the lives of working women and the ways that they have been shaped by contemporary trends, especially push toward globalization, the recent economic downturn, and the 2011 earthquake-related crises in northeastern Japan. Her second collection, \u003cem\u003eTamashii Dance \u003c\/em\u003e(Soul Dance), was published in 2007 and awarded the 41st Oguma Hideo Prize. Several of the most important poems in that collection, including “\u003cem\u003eTsuki ga noboru to\u003c\/em\u003e” (“When the Moon Rises”) were translated by Jeffrey Angles and published in the collection \u003cem\u003eSoul Dance: Poems by Takako\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cem\u003eArai\u003c\/em\u003e (Tokyo: Mi’Te Press, 2008). Arai lives in Tokyo and teaches Japanese to international students at Saitama University. She is also the editor of \u003cem\u003eMi’Te\u003c\/em\u003e, a journal of poetry and literary criticism.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eJeffrey ANGLES \u003c\/strong\u003e(1971- ) is an associate professor of Japanese and translation at Western Michigan University. He is the author of \u003cem\u003eWriting the Love of Boys \u003c\/em\u003e(University of Minnesota Press, 2011) and translator of \u003cem\u003eKilling Kanoko: Selected Poems of Itō Hiromi\u003c\/em\u003e (Action Books, 2009), \u003cem\u003eForest of Eyes: Selected Poems of Tada Chimako\u003c\/em\u003e (University of California Press, 2010), \u003cem\u003eThe Book of the Dead \u003c\/em\u003eby Orikuchi Shinobu (University of Minnesota Press, forthcoming) and numerous other works of prose and poetry. His translation projects have earned the Japan-U.S. Friendship Commission Prize for the Translation of Japanese Literature, the Academy of American Poet’s Landon Translation Award, the PEN Club of America Translation Grant, and a National Endowment for the Arts Translation Grant. His first book of poetry written in Japanese, \u003cem\u003eHizuke henkōsen (International Date Line),\u003c\/em\u003e will be published in the near future.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cem\u003ePoems of Hiromi Itō, Toshiko Hirata \u0026amp; Takako Arai \u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e(Translated from the Japanese by Jeffrey Angles)\u003cbr\u003e2016. 138pp. ISBN 978-1-922181-74-9 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003ciframe style=\"width:550px;height:350px\" src=\"https:\/\/online.anyflip.com\/wuapt\/vyul\/index.html\" seamless=\"seamless\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" allowtransparency=\"true\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"\u003e\u003c\/iframe\u003e","brand":"Vagabond Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":14401971524,"sku":"","price":20.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0182\/8349\/products\/Vagabond_Press_Asia_Pacific_9_Front_cover.jpg?v=1464397936"},{"product_id":"poems-of-kim-min-jeong-kim-yi-deum-kim-haeng-sook-asia-pacific-series-forthcoming","title":"Poems of Kim Min-Jeong, Kim Yi-Deum \u0026 Kim Haeng Sook","description":"\u003cp\u003eTranslated by Jiyoon Lee, Don Mee Choi, Jake Levine and Johannes Göransson.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis collection brings together three of the most exciting voices in contemporary Korean poetry to the English language in translation. These three women poets shock and delight, entertain and de-familiarize, corrupt and contaminate traditional readings and stereotypical definitions of Asian women,  Asian poetry,  Asian-ness. While K-pop girl groups sell cuteness, marketing the female body as an object to be consumed by the male gaze, poems by these three women reveal how that manufactured cuteness is a state of acute deformity. If the male gaze strips the female body of significant social agency through a loss of authenticity or aura, these poets give us a world that shuts down the power behind that gaze. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThis tenth volume in the Asia Pacific Series presents three essential women’s voices in contemporary world literature with a selection of work from Kim Min-Jeong, Kim Yi-Deum \u0026amp; Kim Haeng Sook, and gives\u003c\/span\u003e English-language readers new access to the hybridity of genre and style representative of Korea’s  (“Future Wave”) poets.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eKim Min-Jeong \u003c\/strong\u003ewas born in Inchon in 1976, received a B.A. in creative writing from Chung’ang University and studied at the graduate school of the same university. She made her literary debut in 1999 by winning the Munye chung’ang Rookie Writer’s Award. Her publications include \u003cem\u003eFlying Porcupine Maiden\u003c\/em\u003e (2005) and \u003cem\u003eShe Began to Feel - for the First Time\u003c\/em\u003e(2009). She is the recipient of the 2007 Pak In-hwan Literary Award.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eKim Yi-Deum\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e has published five books of poetry – \u003cem\u003eA Stain in the Shape\u003cspan class=\"\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cem\u003eof a Star\u003c\/em\u003e (2005), \u003cem\u003eCheer up, Femme Fatale\u003c\/em\u003e (2007), \u003cem\u003eThe Unspeakable Lover\u003c\/em\u003e (2011), \u003cem\u003eSong of Berlin, Dahlem\u003c\/em\u003e (2013), and \u003cem\u003eHysteria\u003c\/em\u003e (2014) – and the novel \u003cem\u003eBlood Sisters\u003cspan class=\"\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e(2011). Her work has been adapted into a play (\u003cem\u003eThe Metamorphosis\u003c\/em\u003e, 2014) and a film (\u003cem\u003eAfter School\u003c\/em\u003e, 2015). She has received numerous awards for her poetry, including the Poetry \u0026amp; the World Literary Award (2010), the Kim Daljin\u003cspan class=\"\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eChangwon Award (2011), the 22nd Century Literary Award (2015) and the\u003cspan class=\"\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eKim Chunsoo Award (2015). She read at the Stockholm International Poetry Festival in 2014 and Biennale Internationale des Poètes en Val-de-Marne in\u003cspan class=\"\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e2015. Having received her PhD for a thesis on Korean feminist poetics, she teaches at Gyeongsang National University. She is also a newspaper columnist and hosts a poetry-themed radio program. In 2012, she held a residency at the Free University of Berlin as part of the Writer-in-Residence Abroad Program\u003cspan class=\"\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eof the Arts Council Korea (ARKO). Kim is currently finalizing her book of interviews with homeless people in Paris, as well as writing a new book of poems and essays, while in residence at the University of Ljubljana in Slovenia.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eKim Haeng-sook\u003c\/strong\u003e (born in Seoul – 1970) is a Korean poet and professor. Her debut poem appeared in the quarterly Contemporary Literature in 1999. In 2000, she was named the recipient of the Daesan Creative Writing Fund. Her poetry collections include \u003cem\u003eAdolescence\u003c\/em\u003e (2003), \u003cem\u003eThe Ability to Part\u003c\/em\u003e (2007), and she has also published book of prose including \u003cem\u003eWhat Was Literature\u003c\/em\u003e (2005), \u003cem\u003eTraversing Creations and Ruins\u003c\/em\u003e (2005). She also received the Solmoe Creative Writing Fund in 2007. Currently she is professor of Korean literature at Kangnam University.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eJake Levine\u003c\/strong\u003e is the author of two chapbooks, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Threshold of Erasure \u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003eand \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eVilna Dybbuk\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e. He translates Kim Kyung-ju and is currently working on a PhD in comparative literature at Seoul National University. He edits Spork Press and writes a bi-monthly column introducing American poetry to Korea at the Korean webzine \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eMunjang\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eJi Yoon Lee\u003c\/strong\u003e is a poet and translator whose most recent publication is a book of translation,\u003cspan class=\"\"\u003e\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eCheer Up, Femme Fatale\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan class=\"\"\u003e (Action Books, 2015). She is the author of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eForeigner’s Folly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan class=\"\"\u003e (Coconut Books, 2014),\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"\"\u003e\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eFunsize\/Bitesize\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan class=\"\"\u003e (Birds of Lace, 2013) and\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"\"\u003e\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eIMMA\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan class=\"\"\u003e (Radioactive Moat, 2012). She is the winner of the Joanna Cargill prize (2014), and her manuscript was a finalist for the 1913 First Book Prize (2012). Her poems and translations have appeared in Asymptote, Eleveneleven, The Volta, PANK, Bambi Muse, Seven Corners, The YOLO Pages, The Animated Reader, and \u0026amp; Now Awards 3. She was born in South Korea,  and immigrated to the United States as a teen. She received her MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Notre Dame.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDon Mee Choi\u003c\/strong\u003e was born in Seoul and grew up in Seoul and Hong Kong. She now lives in Seattle. She is the author of \u003cem\u003eThe Morning News is Exciting\u003c\/em\u003e (Action Books, 2010) and a recipient of a 2011 Whiting Writers Award and the 2012 Lucien Stryk Translation Prize. Her most recent translation titles are \u003cem\u003ePrincess Abandoned\u003c\/em\u003e (Tinfish, 2012), \u003cem\u003eSorrowtoothpaste Mirrorcream\u003c\/em\u003e(Action Books, 2014), and \u003cem\u003eI’m OK, I’m Pig!\u003c\/em\u003e (Bloodaxe Books, 2014). She has a pamphlet of talks forthcoming from Wave Books. In 2014, her \u003ca href=\"http:\/\/vagabondpress.net\/products\/don-mee-choi-petite-manifesto\"\u003e\u003cem\u003ePetite Manifesto\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e was published by Vagabond Press and in 2015 the collaborative project \u003ca href=\"http:\/\/vagabondpress.net\/collections\/frontpage\/products\/trilingual-renshi\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eTrilingual Renshi\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eJohannes Göransson\u003c\/strong\u003e Poet and translator Johannes Göransson emigrated with his family from Skåne, Sweden to the United States at age 13. He earned a BA from the University of Minnesota, an MFA from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, and his PhD from the University of Georgia. He is the author of several books, including \u003cem\u003eHaute Surveillance\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e (2013), \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eEntrance to a colonial pageant in which we all begin to intricate\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e (2011), and \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eDear Ra (A Story in Flinches)\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e(2008). He has translated Aase Berg’s \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eDark Matter\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e (2012), \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eTransfer Fat\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e (2012), and \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eRemainland: Selected Poems of Aase Berg\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e (2005) as well as Henry Parland’s \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eIdeals Clearance\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e (2007).\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cem\u003ePoems of Kim Min-Jeong, Kim Yi-Deum \u0026amp; Kim Haeng Sook\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e(Asia Pacific Series 10)\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cspan\u003eTranslated by Jiyoon Lee, Don Mee Choi, Jake Levine and Johannes Göransson.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eFebruary 2017. 88pp. 190mm x 120mm. ISBN 978-1-922181-37-4. \u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003ciframe style=\"width:550px;height:350px\" src=\"https:\/\/online.anyflip.com\/wuapt\/hted\/index.html\" seamless=\"seamless\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" allowtransparency=\"true\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"\u003e\u003c\/iframe\u003e","brand":"Vagabond Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":14402639044,"sku":"","price":20.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0182\/8349\/products\/9781922181374_Korea1_-front_cover.jpg?v=1482736368"},{"product_id":"poems-of-yotsumoto-yasuhiro-minashita-kiryu-and-soh-sakon-br-asia-pacific-series-forthcoming","title":"Poems of Minashita Kiryū, Yotsumoto Yasuhiro \u0026 Soh Sakon","description":"\u003cp\u003eTranslated and introduced by Leith Morton\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis volume comprises selected translations from the poetry of two important contemporary Japanese poets and one of the major postwar Japanese poets. All three poets have won awards for their poetry and are viewed in Japan as among the leading writers of their time.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eYotsumoto Yasuhiro\u003c\/strong\u003e was born in Osaka in 1959, and was educated at Sophia University in Tokyo, and at the University of Pennsylvania. In 1994 he moved to Germany, where he now lives. His 2002 book \u003cem\u003eSekai Chūnen Kaigi \u003c\/em\u003e(World Conference of Middle-Aged Folk) was awarded a number of literary prizes, including the Yamamoto Kenkichi Prize. His 2004 volume of poetry \u003cem\u003eTsugumi no Gogo\u003c\/em\u003e (The Close-Mouthed Afternoon) won the Hagiwara Sakutarō Poetry Prize. In 2006, his poetry volume \u003cem\u003eTsuma no Ugen\u003c\/em\u003e (Wife at Starboard) was published; this volume was preceded by his \u003cem\u003eSelected Poems\u003c\/em\u003e. He is active on the Internet with his well-known website: Poetry International Web.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMinashita Kiryū\u003c\/strong\u003e was born in Kanagawa Prefecture in 1970 and was educated at Waseda University. Her first book of poetry \u003cem\u003eOnsoku Heiwa \u003c\/em\u003e(Sonic Peace) was published in 2005 and the following year was awarded the Nakahara Chūya Poetry Prize. Her second book of poetry \u003cem\u003eZekkyō \u003c\/em\u003e(Border Z) was published in 2008 and was awarded the Bansui Poetry Prize. She has also written a volume of essays on the problems facing contemporary Japanese youth.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSoh Sakon\u003c\/strong\u003e (1925-2006) was one of the major postwar Japanese poets. His award –winning volume \u003cem\u003eMoeru Haha \u003c\/em\u003e(Mother Burning, 1968) is considered one of the landmark poetry books of his era, if not the twentieth century as a whole. He wrote many volumes of verse, a number of which were awarded major literary prizes.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLeith Morton\u003c\/strong\u003e (Professor Emeritus, Tokyo Institute of Technology) has written many books on modern Japanese literature and culture, including: \u003ci\u003eThe Alien Within: Representations of the Exotic in Twentieth-Century Japanese Literature\u003c\/i\u003e (2009), \u003ci\u003eModernism in Practice: An Introduction to Postwar Japanese Poetry \u003c\/i\u003e(2004), \u003ci\u003ePoems of Masayo Koike, Ishigaki Rin \u0026amp; Tanikawa Shuntaro \u003c\/i\u003e(2014). He is also a poet and translator, with over 12 volumes of poetry and poetry translations published, including \u003ci\u003eTokyo: A Poem in Four Chapters\u003c\/i\u003e (2006).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cem\u003ePoems of Minashita Kiryū, Yotsumoto Yasuhiro \u0026amp; Soh Sakon\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cbr\u003e(Asia Pacific Series 11)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eTranslated and introduced by Leith Morton\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003e2017. 120pp. 190mm x 120mm. ISBN \u003c\/span\u003e978-1-922181-73-2 \u003cbr\u003eRelease date: February 2017\n\n\u003ciframe style=\"width:550px;height:350px\" src=\"https:\/\/online.anyflip.com\/wuapt\/uzjt\/index.html\" seamless=\"seamless\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" allowtransparency=\"true\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"\u003e\u003c\/iframe\u003e","brand":"Vagabond Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":14403198788,"sku":"","price":20.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0182\/8349\/products\/9781922181732_Japan3_front_cover.jpg?v=1482735980"},{"product_id":"poems-of-le-dinh-nh-t-lang-nguy-n-thuy-h-ng-d-le-anhdao-br-asia-pacific-series-10","title":"Poems of Nguyễn Thúy Hằng, Đỗ Lê Anhdao \u0026 Lê Đình Nhất-Lang","description":"\u003cp\u003eEdited and introduced by Nguyễn Tiên Hoàng.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTranslated from Vietnamese by Đỗ Lê Anhdao, Lê Đình Nhất-Lang, Như Nam \u0026amp; Lâm Thục Nghi.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA visual artist who lives poetry in Saigon, an illusionist who works theatres and boardrooms across the US, a journalist-translator who mediates new media, in this collection these three prominent voices in contemporary Vietnamese poetry bring to world literature the diversity and richness of poetic expressions in a fast-changing world. \u003cstrong\u003eNguyễn Thúy Hằng\u003c\/strong\u003e, in her blistering take on Rimbaud’s A Season in Hell, delivers a case study in hallucinations and neurosis; her poems enter the realm of stasis, rearrange and reconstruct dream sequences to bring out a language that moves and dances, rejects and embraces, taking the audience with her movements in a tour de force. With puns and wit, \u003cstrong\u003eĐỗ Lê Anhdao\u003c\/strong\u003e’s satirical poems speak strongly for many of her generation on transitory-ness, race and gender politics, confusion and dislocation. Satire at its most effective and timely, her poems are anarchistic, mischievous: a show of strength that takes masquerades and irony by the scruff. \u003cstrong\u003eLê Đình Nhất-Lang\u003c\/strong\u003e’s poems are meditations on a kaleidoscope of the past and now; they are packed with indelible images and drawn with a delicate touch. “Make it New” and “Make it Real”, the poet writes, being in the zeitgeist, being on the street, being close to the Essence of Things. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis twelth volume in Vagabond’s Asia Pacific series gives readers three of the most formidable voices from the current generation of Vietnamese poetry.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong style=\"line-height: 1.4;\"\u003eNguyễn Thúy Hằng\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan style=\"line-height: 1.4;\"\u003e was a graduate from the University of Fine Arts of Ho Chi Minh City. Her first book, a triology \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem style=\"line-height: 1.4;\"\u003eCurrent Times, Good Sensations and Reasonable Insanity, \u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan style=\"line-height: 1.4;\"\u003ewritten during her two-year stint in the US, was published by Youth Publisher, Hanoi in 2006. On return to Vietnam in 2005, Nguyễn Thúy Hằng moved to Hanoi where she published \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem style=\"line-height: 1.4;\"\u003eWe Haven't Been Able to Sleep for Some Time \u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan style=\"line-height: 1.4;\"\u003ewith the Literature Publisher in 2008 and \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem style=\"line-height: 1.4;\"\u003eThey - The Powder of the Illusory\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan style=\"line-height: 1.4;\"\u003e, Nhã Nam Publisher in 2013. Nguyễn Thúy Hằng's works often combine various art forms: art installation, contemporary dance, cinema, painting, music. She is currently living in Ho Chi Minh City. Her works can be viewed at \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ca href=\"www.nguyenthuyhang.com\" style=\"line-height: 1.4;\"\u003ewww.nguyenthuyhang.com\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eĐỗ Lê Anhdao\u003c\/strong\u003e (b.1979) is a Vietnamese American poet, writer, translator, photographer, and performer. Born in Vietnam, Anhdao came to the United States in 1992. She studied Psychobiology at UCLA and spent her post-college years doing advocacy work as a sexual violence educator for the Nevada Coalition Against Sexual Violence. In January 2004, she co-founded One Mic with the group Mai Piece, the first open mic space for young Vietnamese-American writers and musicians in Orange County. In 2006, she co-founded damau.org. Her writings can be found on VietSun, Nha Magazine, and literary journals including \u003ca href=\"http:\/\/www.vietnamlit.org\/wiki\/index.php?title=Tap_Chi_Tho\"\u003eTap Chi Tho\u003c\/a\u003e, \u003ca href=\"http:\/\/www.vietnamlit.org\/wiki\/index.php?title=Hop_Luu\"\u003eHop Luu\u003c\/a\u003e, Van Hoc, Viet Weekly, and \u003ca href=\"http:\/\/www.vietnamlit.org\/wiki\/index.php?title=Talawas\"\u003eTalawas\u003c\/a\u003e. Anhdao currently works as a performance artist and consultant, where she uses deception as a toolset to teach perception. She authors a blog on mentalism and human behavior at \u003ca href=\"http:\/\/ava-do.com\/\"\u003eAva-Do.com\u003c\/a\u003e. Anhdao is based out of Las Vegas and Los Angeles but mostly lives at 30,000 feet.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLê Đình Nhất Lang\u003c\/strong\u003e (b.1969) is a poet and translator living in Southern California. He writes his poems in Vietnamese and translates poems by others both to and from Vietnamese. Growing up in Vietnam in a post-war period which saw the departure of many hundreds of thousands of boatpeople, he emigrated to France with his family in 1983 and moved to the U.S. in 1985. After graduating from college as a computational linguistic major, he worked for more than a decade in software programming before switching careers to work as a news translator for Vietnamese-language media. His poems and translations have appeared in the printed magazines Thế Kỷ 21, Văn Học and Văn, and the web-based magazines \u003ca href=\"http:\/\/tienve.org\"\u003etienve.org\u003c\/a\u003e and \u003ca href=\"http:\/\/damau.org\"\u003edamau.org\u003c\/a\u003e. He has been on the damau editorial staff since 2007.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eNguyễn Tiên Hoàng\u003c\/strong\u003e is a Melbourne-based poet, translator and poetry editor. His poems appeared in the \u003cem\u003eSaturday Age\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eHEAT\u003c\/em\u003e, Cordite, Peril, Black Inc Publishing anthologies of \u003cem\u003eBest Australian Poems\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003ePoetry International\u003c\/em\u003e website and \u003cem\u003eContemporary Asian-Australian Poets\u003c\/em\u003e anthology [Puncher \u0026amp; Wattmann, 2013]. With Vagabond Press he has published \u003cem\u003eYears, Elegy\u003c\/em\u003e - a chapbook in the Rare Objects series and edited the fourth volume in the Asia Pacific Poetry series. \u003cstrong\u003eNguyễn Tiên Hoàng\u003c\/strong\u003e under the pen name \u003cstrong\u003eThường Quán\u003c\/strong\u003e over thirty years has published a wide range of essays, poems and short stories on major Vietnamese literary journals inside and outside Vietnam including Van, Van Hoc, Hop Luu, tienve, damau; a collection of poems \u003cem\u003eNgoai Giac Ngu\u003c\/em\u003e (Beyond Sleeps) by Van Nghe Publishing, California; and \u003cem\u003eWatermarks\u003c\/em\u003e on talawas. He was poetry editor of Hop Luu (Confluence) and is currently on the editorial panel of \u003ca href=\"http:\/\/damau.org\"\u003e \u003cem\u003eDa Mau\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cem\u003ePoems of Nguyễn Thúy Hằng, Đỗ Lê Anhdao \u0026amp; Lê Đình Nhất-Lang \u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e(Asia Pacific Series 12)\u003cbr\u003e2017. 130pp. 190mm x 120mm. ISBN 978-1-922181-77-0\u003cbr\u003eRelease date: February 2017.\n\n\u003ciframe style=\"width:550px;height:350px\" src=\"https:\/\/online.anyflip.com\/wuapt\/yply\/index.html\" seamless=\"seamless\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" allowtransparency=\"true\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"\u003e\u003c\/iframe\u003e","brand":"Vagabond Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":14403679620,"sku":"","price":20.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0182\/8349\/products\/9781922181770-_Vietnam3_front_cover.jpg?v=1482736138"},{"product_id":"poems-of-wu-suzhen-yue-xuan-qing-shui-asia-pacific-series-13","title":"Poems of Wu Suzhen, Yue Xuan \u0026 Qing Shui","description":"\u003cp\u003eTranslated from Chinese by Ouyang Yu and with an introduction by Cui Yuwei\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis thirteenth volume in Vagabond Press’ Asia Pacific is a collection of poems by three Chinese women poets, Wu Suzhen, Yue Xuan and Qing Shui. Wu, born in 1981, from Jiangxi in the hinterland of China; Yue, born in 2002, from Wenling by the East China Sea; and Qing, born in 1971, from Shanghai proper.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThere is a wide range of themes covered in this book. Traditional streets that are fast disappearing in small towns in Jiangxi, people suffering from depression or madness, old women in bound feet, are what Wu Suzhen are most adept at capturing in her lines. Yue Xuan, the youngest of the three, writes short and pithy poems in a dry, humorous tone, that depict the world in the eyes of a 14-year-old. Qing Shui is lyrically passionate, writing prose poems centred on nature that are sensitive and mesmerizing.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWu Suzhen\u003c\/b\u003e, a woman poet, born in Jinxi, Jiangxi province, China, in the 1980s, is a member of Chinese Writers’ Association, whose poetry has been widely published in China. To date, she has published two collections of poetry, \u003ci\u003eSeeing the Butterflies\u003c\/i\u003e, published in 2014 by Changjiang Literature and Arts Publishing House, and \u003ci\u003eThe Unfinished Journey,\u003c\/i\u003e published in 2013 by Lijiang Publishing House. The 30 poems published are from her collection of Chinese poems, titled, \u003ci\u003eRaising a Tigress\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBorn in February 2002 in Wenling, Zhejiang province, China, \u003cb\u003eYue Xuan\u003c\/b\u003e, currently a student studying at Grade 5 in a primary school, is probably one of the youngest and most prolific girl poets in China. In 2012, she wrote 25 poems in one month and in January 2013, she wrote 47 poems. These poems are selected from that output and some other poems written subsequently. Five of her poems have been included in \u003ci\u003eBreaking New Sky: Contemporary Poetry\u003c\/i\u003e from China, published by Five Islands Press in 2013. She has been widely published in such literary magazines as \u003ci\u003eChangjiang wenyi\u003c\/i\u003e (Yangtze Arts and Literature Monthly), \u003ci\u003eTequ wenxue \u003c\/i\u003e(Literature of the Special Economic Zone Monthly) and \u003ci\u003eZhongguo shige\u003c\/i\u003e (Chinese Poetry Monthly). The 30 poems published here are from her collection of Chinese poems, \u003ci\u003eThe Shortness of Eternity\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eQing Shui\u003c\/b\u003e, whose real name is Zhu Hongli, is from Shanghai, and has been widely published in China, in such literary magazines as \u003ci\u003eShichao\u003c\/i\u003e (Wave of Poetry), \u003ci\u003eShilin\u003c\/i\u003e (Forest of Poetry), \u003ci\u003eXingxing\u003c\/i\u003e (Stars), \u003ci\u003eZhongguo shiren \u003c\/i\u003e(Chinese Poets), \u003ci\u003eShanghai shiren\u003c\/i\u003e (Shanghai Poets), \u003ci\u003eShi xuankan\u003c\/i\u003e (Selected Poetry), \u003ci\u003eShige yuekan\u003c\/i\u003e (Poetry Monthly), and \u003ci\u003eSanwenshi shijie\u003c\/i\u003e (The World of Prose Poetry), and her work has been included in many anthologies as well. The 30 prose poems published here are from her collection of Chinese prose poems, \u003ci\u003eNight Light at Soft Grass.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eCui Yuwei\u003c\/b\u003e, born in 1983, is a bilingual poet and translator based in China. In 2007, she completed an MA in English Literature in Wuhan University. She has published poems in Mascara Review and Cordite Poetry Review (AU). Her works of translation appear in Off-the-Coast (US), The Sons of Camus Writers International Journal (CA) and Ajar (Vietnam). Her Chinese poems are widely seen in various literary journals and collections in China. Currently, she works as an English lecturer in Beijing Normal University at Zhuhai in China.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eOuyang Yu, \u003c\/b\u003enow based in Melbourne, came to Australia in early 1991 and, by late 2016, has published 84 books of poetry, fiction, non-fiction, literary translation and literary criticism in English and Chinese. He also edits Australia’s only Chinese literary journal, \u003ci\u003eOtherland\u003c\/i\u003e. Ouyang’s poetry has been included in the Best Australian poetry collections for 11 times from 2004 to 2016, including his poetry translations from the Chinese in 2012 and 2013, and has been included in such major Australian collections as \u003ci\u003eThe Penguin Anthology of Australian Poetry\u003c\/i\u003e (2009), \u003ci\u003eThe Macquarie PEN Anthology of Australian Literature\u003c\/i\u003e (2010) and \u003ci\u003eThe turnrow Anthology of Contemporary Australian Poetry \u003c\/i\u003e(2014). He has to date published 5 English novels, \u003ci\u003eThe Eastern Slope Chronicle\u003c\/i\u003e (2002), \u003ci\u003eThe English Class \u003c\/i\u003e(2010), \u003ci\u003eLoose: A Wild History \u003c\/i\u003e(2011), \u003ci\u003eDiary of a Naked Official\u003c\/i\u003e (2014) and \u003ci\u003eBilly Sing\u003c\/i\u003e (2016), and 3 Chinese novels, \u003ci\u003eThe Angry Wu Zili\u003c\/i\u003e (1999 and 2016), \u003ci\u003eLand of Gold-diggers\u003c\/i\u003e (2014) and \u003ci\u003eA Lonely Night Boat\u003c\/i\u003e (published in Taiwan in 2016). Ouyang was nominated one of the Top 100 Most Influential Melbournians for 2011 as well as the Top 10 most influential writers of Chinese origin in the Chinese diaspora. He is now the ‘Siyuan Scholar’ and professor of English at Shanghai University of International Business and Economics, China. In 2016, he won an Australia Council grant for writing a book of bilingual poetry and a special award from the Australia-China Council for ‘his contributions to Australian Studies in China through major translations and original works of scholarship’.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cem\u003ePoems of Wu Suzhen, Yue Xuan \u0026amp; Qing Shui\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e(Asia Pacific Series 13)\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eTranslated from Chinese by Ouyang Yu. Introduction by Cui Yuwei.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eFebruary 2017. 136pp. 190mm x 120mm. 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In addition he published translations in many genres including the comic strip \u003cem\u003ePeanuts\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eMother Goose\u003c\/em\u003e rhymes. He has also produced a wide range of children’s books, essays, song lyrics, and scripts for radio, TV, and film. He lives in Tokyo.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eTakako Lento translates poetry and prose from Japanese to English and vice versa. Her recent books of translation and critical essays include \u003cem\u003eTamura Ryu-ichi, on the Life and Work of a 20th Century Master (\u003c\/em\u003eco-ed. Wayne Miller); \u003cem\u003eThe Art of Being Alone: Tanikawa Shuntarō, 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. 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Heather Blakey, \u003cem\u003eWesterly\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003eThe \u003cem\u003eSelected Poems\u003c\/em\u003e of Kazue Shinkawa covers the oeuvre of one of the greatest poets of the modern Japan, covering a span of 60 years from her debut book 'Nemuri isu' (The Sleeping Chair), published in 1953, to her latest collection Bookend. It contains about fifty poems from more than ten volumes, including such monumental work as 'Please Do Not Bundle Me', 'Not a Metaphor', 'Odes to the Soil' and poems for children. The introduction by Yasuhiro Yotsumoto follows the footsteps of Shinkawa’s extraordinary jouney as an iconclastic woman poet trying to reconcile Western modernity with her Japanese literary heritage. All translations are new, done especially for this collection by the unique team of Takako Lento, a renowned translator dedicated to modern Japanese poetry, and Yasuhiro Yotsumoto, a leading contemporary Japanese poet.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eKazue Shinkawa was born in 1929 in Ibaraki Prefecture, Japan. Since her first book of poetry, \u003cem\u003eThe Sleeping Chair,\u003c\/em\u003e came out in 1953, more than 30 books of her poetry have been published including many “selected poems” and two complete works. She has also published half a dozen books of poetry for children and compiled many anthologies. For the female poets in Japan, Kazue Shinkawa is an important mother figure, mainly thanks to her co-founding, together with Sachiko Yoshihara, the women’s poetry magazine La Mer, which existed for ten years from 1983 to 1993, helping launch the careers of many younger female poets. 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He has also published thirteen books of poetry, two novels, and two books of literary criticism, including \u003cem\u003eTanikawa Shuntarology\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eTakako Lento translates poetry and prose from Japanese to English and vice versa. 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. 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A—perhaps the—central finding will be that he writes in order to communicate with other people; and just as often with himself, for that matter; and although poems can be viewed as a way of talking to oneself, his main intention would seem to be to talk to himself and others. Asked often, 'Why do you write poetry?' His answer might well be, responding to the questioner, 'Well, why don’t you write poetry?'\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSpanning over a half a century of collaboration and friendship, \u003cem\u003eA Taste of Tanikawa\u003c\/em\u003e is a testament to how, like friendship, great literature transcends culture and language to communicate straight to the heart of what it means to be human. William I. Elliott, with Kazuo Kawamura (1933-2015), has translated Shuntarō Tanikawa’s work since the 1960s, the three of them working hand-in-hand to bring into English the work of one of contemporary poetry’s most legendary figures. Combining reflections by Elliott with poems by Tanikawa in translations by Elliott, Kawamura and Katsumasa Nishihara, A Taste of Tanikawa distills a lifetime of poetry and friendship. This unique and warmhearted collection offers a meditation on the art of poetry and translation where poetry is first and foremost the communication of shared human experience.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBoth born in 1931, Tanikawa and Elliott’s friendship and commitment to poetry are running as strong as ever. The work they’ve shared and the work ahead will no doubt continue to change world poetry for the better for years to come. \u003cem\u003eA Taste of Tanikawa\u003c\/em\u003e offers a gentle and profound testimony to the value of poetry, dedication to craft and the deep wellspring of friendship and human communication at the heart of literature.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eShuntarō Tanikawa\u003c\/strong\u003e ’s collections include \u003cem\u003eTwo Billion Light Years of Solitude\u003c\/em\u003e (1952), \u003cem\u003eWith Silence My Companion\u003c\/em\u003e (1968), \u003cem\u003eCoca-Cola-Lessons\u003c\/em\u003e (1980), \u003cem\u003eRather than Pure White\u003c\/em\u003e (1995), \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/vagabondpress.net\/collections\/translation\/products\/shuntaro-tanikawa-watashi\" target=\"_blank\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eWatashi\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e (2007), \u003cem\u003eThe Art of Being Alone: Poems 1952-2009\u003c\/em\u003e (2011), \u003cem\u003eKokoro\u003c\/em\u003e (2013) and \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/vagabondpress.net\/collections\/facebook\/products\/tanikawa-shuntaro-ordinary-people\" target=\"_blank\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eOrdinary People\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e (2020), all of which have helped to bring Japanese poetry into the contemporary world and to keep it there. 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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. 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