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Archive for 2010

Dec 29

Yoko Danno – ‘trilogy’ 1970 poetry book re-issued

Poet, translator and editor (& PK 2010 contributor) Yoko Danno re-issued her 1970 poetry book “trilogy” this year from The Ikuta Press, entitled “Trilogy & Hagoromo: A Celestial Robe.”
from Winter Journey :

from Winter Journey:

 

 

Reflection

 

 

as usual

 

she

looked

in the water:

 

the thin

ice

 

screened her

 

from

the world

 

below
 

Available at Amazon.com

 

 

 

 

Dec 29

literary Japan updates/websites

JIPS (Japan International Poetry Society) blog:

http://jipsociety.wordpress.com/

Ikuta Press (Kobe) website:

http://www.ikutapress.com/

YOMIMONO blog: http://yomimono.wordpress.com/

YOMIMONO articles about, in The Japan Times & Koe Magazine:

http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/fb20101226a2.html

http://www.koemagazine.com/page/62/

YOMIMONO at Amazoncom:


http://www.amazon.com/Yomimono-15-Suzanne-Kamata/dp/1453808132/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1293591533&sr=1-1

Dec 22

reissue of William Heyen’s LORD DRAGONFLY, 2010

PK contributor (2007) William Heyen’s 1981 classic Lord Dragonfly has been reissued by H NGM N BKS, and editor Nate Pritts’ accompanying essay is well worth reading as well (see link & excerpt below).

(Editor’s Note: Mr. Heyen’s title invokes for me the rice paddy not far from my house in North Kamakura which pulsates with dragonflies of varying sizes, shapes and colors during hot, humid summer days.–A.B.)

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Beginning Again: On Reissuing William Heyen’s Lord Dragonfly

by Nate Pritts

In 1992 I was a seventeen year old college freshman in Brockport, New York, a town where it’s always fall or winter, where the Erie Canal dominates both landscape & mood, all full of bird shadows, & where sunflowers look stark & lovely against the weathered brick of academic buildings.

Seventeen & I walked up the stairs of Lathrop Hall on the SUNY Brockport campus to my first college English class & the hallway chalkboard/message center told me:

xii.

Lord Dragonfly

sees me from all sides

at once.

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(to continue, follow link–

http://coldfrontmag.com/features/on-reissuing-william-heyens-lord-dragonfly

Nov 3

2010 Pushcart nominations for Poetry Kanto (issue #26 soon available)

 

Alicia Ostriker (New Jersey)—HEAVEN

J.P. Dancing Bear (California)—Gacela of Rememberance

Katherine Riegel (Florida)—HYDRA

Bill Wolak (New Jersey)—THE GIFT

Ginger Murchison (Georgia)—Whitman’s Hermit Thrush

Temple Cone (Maryland)—Offertory

Jan 21

Poetry Kanto 2010 poem on Verse Daily

Verse Daily featured a poem by Poetry Kanto 2010 poet J.P. Dancing Bear today. The poem, entitled “Gacela of Twilight Bats”, is archived at the Verse Daily website for Jan. 20, 2011.

 

http://www.versedaily.com/