Book record
Alice Iris Red Horse
Gozo Yoshimasu
Translated from Japanese by Auston Stewart
Alice Iris Red Horse, translated from the Japanese by Sawako Nakayasu, Hiroaki Sato, Eric Selland, Jeffrey Angles, Richard Arno, Derek Gromadzki, Sayuri Okamoto, Auston Stewart, Kyoko Yoshida, Jordan A. Y. Smith, brings Gozo Yoshimasu's Japanese-language work into English through New Directions. Published in 2016, it is best approached as a book of encounter rather than as a book to solve. Yoshimasu’s book has the feeling of a large experimental weather system, carried into English by many translators because no single channel could hold it. I would not read this as a puzzle with a hidden answer. Read it for pressure, for texture, for the place where a line suddenly becomes stranger than its apparent subject. The book matters because it keeps the translated poem alive as encounter, not summary, and because Japan enters the shelf through music rather than report.
- Published
- 2016
- Publisher
- New Directions
- Language
- Japanese
- Country
- Japan
- ISBN
- 9780811226042