Yuki Tanaka

Chronicle of Drifting (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Chronicle of Drifting enacts a restless quest for belonging, interweaving dreamlike imagery and Japanese lyricism



Yuki Tanaka's stunning debut, Chronicle of Drifting, explores rootlessness, its beauty and perils. Tanaka's restless imagination roams among places and personaea village mermaid, a geisha in the Midwest, a flâneur in Tokyosearching for a permanent self and a sense of community. In the feverish world of these poems, inspired by the Japanese tradition of tanka and haiku, as well as by timeless surrealism, one meets a light-lashed horse, an imaginary chauffeur, an out-of-business psychic, a girl who skewers a fish with a flower stalk. In poems ranging from lyric to prose, Tanaka creates a poignant dreamlike realm where the inner and outer worlds, the self and others, mergelike the train passenger who, looking out the window and seeing the sky through his reflection, feels empty, a blue outline.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Copper Canyon Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. September 2025
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781619323131
• Artikelnr.: 73681890

Autorenporträt

Yuki Tanaka was born and raised on a small island in Yamaguchi, Japan. His poems have appeared in The Nation, The New Republic, The Paris Review, Poetry, and elsewhere. He has cotranslated, with Mary Jo Bang, A Kiss for the Absolute: Selected Poems of Shuzo Takiguchi, published by Princeton University Press. He lives in Tokyo and teaches at Hosei University.