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Since then 7 collections of his poetry were published including ”Muddy Calender” (Co-authored with Inuo Taguchi, 2008), “Starboard of My Wife” (2006), “Golden Hour” (2004). He won several awards such as Hagiwara Sakutaro Award and his poems have been translated into more than 10 languages including two books of Romanian and Serbian translations. In addition to poetry, Yasuhiro writes essays, literary criticism, and translates poetry from English or German to Japanese. His latest book of translation will be “Kid” by Simon Armitage to be published in Japan later this year. He is also active in editorial works: since 2006, Yotsumoto has been National Editor of Poetry International Web – Japan, introducing the contemporary Japanese poetry through English translations. 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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. 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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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Tinio\u003c\/strong\u003e was born in the packed district of Tondo, Manila in 1937, and began writing poetry in English. He switched to Tagalog, his mother tongue, (the national language, called Filipino) in the mid-60s. After acquiring a Masters degree in English from the Iowa Creative Writing Program in 1958, he taught at the Ateneo de Manila University. He is better known as a playwright and translator of plays, founding and artistically directing the Teatro Pilipino (1975-92). The plays he translated into Tagalog range from Sophocles and Shakespeare to Chekhov and Beckett. He worked as a set designer as well as director, had a career as an actor for film and television, wrote film scripts and teleplays. His first book of poems in Tagalog, \u003cem\u003eSitsit sa Kuliglig\u003c\/em\u003e (Cricket Gossip), was published in 1972; there were two others and in 1994, a selection of his poems in English and Tagalog. These books don’t include the lyrics to numerous songs. He died in 1997. 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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. 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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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In 1966 he graduated in Art History from Ljubljana University. Šalamun, who won the Prešeren Prize in 2000, was the leading figure of the Slovenian poetic avant-garde in the 1960s and in the 1970s. In early 1970s he spent two years at Iowa on the International Writing Programme, and he has lived on and off in the USA since then. In 1996 he became Slovenian Cultural Attaché in New York. He has published 45 volumes of poetry in Slovenian. His work has also been translated into twenty different languages, numbering over 80 volumes, and he has been included in many anthologies. He was a former Fulbright Fellow at the Columbia  University in New York and visiting professor at the Universities of Alabama, Massachusetts, Pittsburgh, Richmond and Texas (The Michener Center for Writers in Austin). 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From the Karen ethnic minority, she grew up in refugee camps on the Thai-Myanmar border, where she began working in English, Karen and Burmese language radio, print and online media. In 2009, Violet was awarded the Asian Journalism Fellowship by Auckland University of Technology’s Pacific Media Centre. Violet is currently a Visiting Fellow in the College of Asia and the Pacific, Australian National University.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDavid Gilbert\u003c\/strong\u003e is a PhD Candidate in the College of Asia and the Pacific, Australian National University. His research is on transgender everyday life in urban Myanmar. David previously worked in community education in Thailand and Myanmar, supporting Burmese activists and displaced people to access higher education. He has written for journals and websites including Sojourn, Arena and Poetry International.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCover image © Branli, Abstraction of Kachin Pattern, 2013. Acrylic on canvas, 120 X 120 cm.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ciframe style=\"width:550px;height:350px\" src=\"https:\/\/online.anyflip.com\/wuapt\/wrui\/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":610553257,"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_series_5_-_Burma.jpg?v=1394605452"},{"product_id":"poems-of-hong-ying-zhai-yongming-yang-lian","title":"Poems of Hong Ying, Zhai Yongming \u0026 Yang Lian","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"line-height: 1.2;\"\u003eEdited by Mabel Lee. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"line-height: 1.2;\"\u003eTranslated from the Chinese by \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"line-height: 1.2;\"\u003eMabel Lee, Naikan Tao \u0026amp; Tony Prince.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis sixth volume in Vagabond’s Asia Pacific Poetry Series brings together a selection of poetry from three key contemporary Chinese poets Hong Ying, Zhai Yongming \u0026amp; Yang Lian edited and introduced by Mabel Lee, translated by Mabel Lee, Naikan Tao \u0026amp; Tony Prince and with cover art by Lin Chunyan. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan\u003eHong Ying\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e (b. 1962) was born in Chongqing. 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. Her novels include \u003cem\u003eDaughter of the River\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eSummer of Betrayal\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eK: The Art of Love\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eThe Concubine of\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cem\u003eShanghai\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003ePeacock Cries\u003c\/em\u003e: her novel \u003cem\u003eK\u003c\/em\u003e was awarded the Primo de Rome Prize in 2005. Her most recent collection of poetry spans thirty years of her poetic life, and has the title: \u003cem\u003eI Too Am Salammbo \u003c\/em\u003e(2013).\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan\u003eZhai Yongming\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e (b. 1955) was born in Chengdu. She was sent to the countryside to work as a peasant for two years during the Cultural Revolution, but afterwards graduated in laser technology in 1981, and in the same year began publishing poetry. Her two cycles of poems \u003cem\u003eWoman\u003c\/em\u003e (1984) and \u003cem\u003eJing’an Village\u003c\/em\u003e (1985) stamped her credentials as one of the most significant poets of the 1980s. She became a role model for aspiring women poets who provided a powerful and distinctive voice in the world of Chinese poetry that had previously been dominated by male poets. She travelled to the United States in 1990, and returned in 1992 to Chengdu where she enjoys a celebrity presence as an installation artist and the owner of a literary and art salon called White Nights. Her other collections of poetry include \u003cem\u003eAbove All the Roses\u003c\/em\u003e (1989), \u003cem\u003eCollected Poems of Zhai Yongming\u003c\/em\u003e (1994), as well as the English title, \u003cem\u003eThe Changing Room: Selected Poetry of Zhai Yongming\u003c\/em\u003e (2012).\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan\u003eYang Lian\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e (b. 1955) was born in Bern, Switzerland, but grew up in Beijing. Amongst the first wave of new poets to emerge after the Cultural Revolution, his poetry exuberantly extols male sexuality. His cycle of poems titled \u003cem\u003eNorlang\u003c\/em\u003e (1983) was criticized during the Anti-Spiritual-Pollution campaign of 1983, and he was banned from publishing for a year. In 1985 \u003cem\u003eNorlang\u003c\/em\u003e was reprinted twice: in his \u003cem\u003eRitualization of the Soul\u003c\/em\u003e as well as together with other of his poems in Lao Mu’s \u003cem\u003eAnthology of New Wave Poetry\u003c\/em\u003e. Since travelling to Australia in 1988 he has established a significant international presence. His poetry has been published in Chinese and also in many other languages. His English titles include \u003cem\u003eMasks and Crocodile\u003c\/em\u003e (1990), \u003cem\u003eThe Dead in Exile\u003c\/em\u003e (1990), \u003cem\u003eNon-Person Singular\u003c\/em\u003e (1994), \u003cem\u003eWhere the Sea Stands Still\u003c\/em\u003e (1995), \u003cem\u003eYi\u003c\/em\u003e (2002), \u003cem\u003eNotes of a Blissful Ghost\u003c\/em\u003e (2002), \u003cem\u003eConcentric Circles\u003c\/em\u003e (2005), \u003cem\u003eUnreal City\u003c\/em\u003e (2006), and \u003cem\u003eRiding Pisces\u003c\/em\u003e (2008). He has been awarded two important literary prizes in Italy: the Flaiano International Poetry Prize (1999) and the Nonino International Literary Prize (2012).\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb style=\"line-height: 1.2;\"\u003eMabel Lee\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan style=\"line-height: 1.2;\"\u003e PhD FAHA is Adjunct Professor of Chinese Studies at the University of Sydney following a 34-year teaching and research career in 20th century Chinese intellectual history and literature. Since 1990 she has translated 3 volumes of poetry by Yang Lian and 5 volumes of fiction and criticism by Nobel Laureate Gao Xingjian, as well as publishing research papers on both authors. She is currently translating a volume of poetry by award-winning novelist Hong Ying.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eNaikan Tao \u003c\/b\u003ePhD is interested in poetry and poetics and translates Chinese literature. 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. He has published articles and co-authored books on Buddhism and Chinese poetry. He retired from teaching in 2000 and now lives on the south coast of NSW, Australia.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCover image © Lin Chunyan, 2007. \u003ci\u003eFlying in the Sky–2. \u003c\/i\u003eOil on canvas, 200 X 300 cm.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ciframe style=\"width: 550px; height: 350px;\" src=\"https:\/\/online.anyflip.com\/wuapt\/wdbe\/index.html\" seamless=\"seamless\" scrolling=\"no\" allowtransparency=\"true\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" frameborder=\"0\"\u003e\u003c\/iframe\u003e","brand":"Vagabond Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":610579421,"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_series_6_-_China.jpg?v=1394605996"},{"product_id":"poems-of-le-van-tai-nguy-n-ton-hi-t-phan-qu-nh-tram","title":"Poems of  Lê Văn Tài,  Nguyễn Tôn Hiệt  \u0026 Phan Quỳnh Trâm","description":"\u003cp\u003eEdited by Nguyễn Hưng Quốc \u0026amp; Nhã Thuyên. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis seventh volume in Vagabond’s Asia Pacific Poetry Series brings together a selection of poetry from \u003cspan\u003ethree contemporary Vietnamese poets \u003c\/span\u003eliving in Australia: \u003cspan\u003eLê Văn Tài, Nguyễn Tôn Hiệt \u0026amp; Phan \u003c\/span\u003eQuỳnh Trâm. Introduced by Nguyễn Hưng Quốc and with an ‘After words’ by Nhã Thuyên, this collection opens a window on contemporary writing from the Vietnamese diaspora and insights into the evolution and realities of transnational literature. Cover art by Nguyễn Hưng Trinh.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCover image © Nguyễn Hưng Trinh (2010), \u003ci\u003eAn artist and his model\u003c\/i\u003e. Oil on canvas, 100x100cm. Courtesy of the artist.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cb\u003eLê Văn Tài \u003c\/b\u003ecame to Australia as a refugee in 1984. As a visual artist, he has held numerous exhibitions, individual and collective, in Vietnam, Hong Kong and Australia. As a poet, he has published three collections of poetry, two in English, \u003ci\u003eEmpty Arms Surrounded by Warm Breath\u003c\/i\u003e (1987) and \u003ci\u003eWaiting the Waterfall Falls\u003c\/i\u003e (1996), and one in Vietnamese, \u003ci\u003eThơ Lê Văn Tài\u003c\/i\u003e (2013).\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cb\u003eNguyễn Hưng Quốc\u003c\/b\u003e is coordinator of the Vietnamese program at Victoria University, Melbourne. As a critic, he has published nearly 20 books on Vietnamese language, literature, culture and politics, including \u003ci\u003eVietnamese Literature in Australia: Politics and Poetics of Diaspora \u003c\/i\u003e(in Vietnamese, 2013).\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cb\u003eNguyễn Tôn Hiệt\u003c\/b\u003e arrived in Australia as a political refugee from Vietnam in 1983. He has been actively working as a musician, writer, poet, playwright, essayist, translator and editor. 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. She currently co-edits AJAR, a bilingual literary and art journal based in Hanoi.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003ciframe style=\"width:550px;height:350px\" src=\"https:\/\/online.anyflip.com\/wuapt\/qpma\/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":3064124100,"sku":"","price":20.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0182\/8349\/products\/VagabondPress_AP7_e672dc05-9d71-4981-99ed-007985ae28ab.jpg?v=1434344129"},{"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. ISBN 978-1-922181-40-4. \u003c\/span\u003e118pp\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"column\"\u003eRelease date: January 1, 2016\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003ciframe style=\"width:550px;height:350px\" src=\"https:\/\/online.anyflip.com\/wuapt\/lrjq\/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":12884472708,"sku":"","price":25.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0182\/8349\/products\/NhaThuyen_front_cover.jpg?v=1451354883"},{"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. 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