Time of sky/castles in the air by Ayane Kawata and translated by Sawako Nakayasu

This is poetry from Japan.

Time of sky/castles in the air by Ayane Kawata translated by Sawako Nakayasu is published by Litmus Press. This is a Book originally written in Japanese. This was published in 2010.0 and has the ISBN of 9.781933959085E12.

Time of Sky / Castles in the Air, by Ayane Kawata and translated by Sawako Nakayasu, sounds like a book built from atmospheres that almost refuse architecture. The title holds two kinds of height: the vastness of sky and the impossible structure of a castle that cannot quite touch ground. Kawata’s Japanese poems, in Nakayasu’s English, seem to ask the reader to accept instability as a place of thought rather than a failure of clarity. I would not approach this collection looking for explanation first. Better to let its images hover and accumulate. Nakayasu is a poet-translator especially alive to experiment, texture, and small dislocations, which makes her a compelling guide for work that appears to move through air, time, memory, and suspension.

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