A few days ago, the blog Truck included two of my newest translations from Japanese, one by the female writer HIRATA Toshiko 平田俊子 and the other by the queer male writer TANAKA Atsusuke 田中宏輔. This blog was started by Kate Schapira as a project to explore new contemporary poetry. Each day, she included the writing of a contemporary poet whom she had not known when she started the project.
The poems she selected to include on the blog are a super juxtposition, one wistful, one erotic, both full of longing and a desire to step away from daily experience.
For the two poems, click here.
For more of my translations by Hirata Toshiko, click here.
For a video of Tanaka reading his work, click here.
