{"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). 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