Book record
Time of sky/castles in the air
Ayane Kawata
Translated from Japanese by Sawako Nakayasu
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.
- Published
- 2010
- Publisher
- Litmus Press
- Language
- Japanese
- Country
- Japan
- ISBN
- 9781933959085