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Scubadivers and Chrysanthemums: Essays on the Poetry of Araki Yasusada

Scubadivers and Chrysanthemums: Essays on the Poetry of Araki Yasusada

Freind, Bill

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Letters & EssaysPoetry CriticismGeneral Poetry

ISBN10: 1848611846
ISBN13: 9781848611849
Publisher: Summertime Pub
Published: Jan 14 2012
Pages: 322
Weight: 1.10
Height: 0.76 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Araki Yasusada, allegedly a survivor of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, had his work published posthumously and in translation in the mid-1990s. The work was widely praised and seemed to fuse traditional Japanese forms and themes with more innovative North American techniques and a sprinkling of French critical theory. However, Yasusada was an invention, and while no one claimed responsibility for the work, most readers agree that Kent Johnson was the creator, although Johnson insists the actual author is Tosa Motokiyu, the pseudonym for an unnamed writer who is now dead. This book considers all aspects of the Yasusada phenomenon.

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