torii shozo (3 Ergebnisse)

Soft cover. Zustand: Very Good. 193 pp., bibliography. corner of front cover has a large crease. Bearded Cones & Pleasure Blades contains all of the poetry of Torii Shozo (1932-99) in English translation for the first time. Taylor Mignon took a decade to produce his painstaking translation. Shiraishi Kazuko introduces the work, and Taylor adds an essay. It is illustrated by Torii's fellow VOU Club poets/artists KitasonoKatue and Yamamoto Kansuke. Torii Shozo situated himself poetically in a unique position straddling two worlds. His erudite knowledge of surrealism is marked in his poetry by endearing references to international avant-garde heroes and their works. His method of poetic production owes to the haiku tradition of juxtaposing concrete particulars unexpectedly, for intensely imagistic works. This unique, hybrid method set himapart from his more minimalist poetic brethren by figuratively supplementing flesh on the "exquisite corpse." Literal references to lines by Santoka and Matsuo Basho, among others, were fused in his last volume, Wind Semiotics, in which the irony, eroticism and violence are presented humorously.

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good.

Kl.-8vo. 56 nn. S. m. 3 ganzs. Orig.-Radierungen. OLn. Torii Shozo (1932-1994) was a member of the influential avant-garde journal group VOU (pronounced "Vow"), edited by his esteemed mentor, Kitasono Katue. Torii's first book, published at the age of 22, was A Bibliophile's Notebook, a book of essays on the books he loved. 8 volumes of his poetry, mostly in limited editions of between 125-300 copies, were published between 1955 and 1994. He was a private publisher of fine, rare poetry books specially bound and printed on washi paper, in addition to the journal he edited, TRAP. Among the pioneering Japanese poets and artists he published in TRAP, were poets overseas such as Lawrence Ferlinghetti and David Mamet and photography by Nicole Rousmaniere. His book collection of Japanese and Western Modernism and Surrealism is one of the most formidable in Japan.