Kiwao Nomura: Difference between revisions

The work of Kiwao Nomura “plays with language in radical and diverse ways, employing subtleties of rhythm, semantics, image, gender, punctuation, and repetition, often all within the same short stanza” stanza.”<ref name="rumpus"/> [[Forrest Gander]], co-translator of Kiwao Nomura’s poetry, noted in an interview, “What we find in innovative Japanese poetries like Gozo Yoshimasu’s and Kiwao Nomura’s has, as far as I know, no equivalents in contemporary poetry in English. The mix of the philosophical and the whimsical makes for a tone that is absolutely weird to Westerners.”<ref>{{Cite web

According to [[Poetry International Web]], “In all such experiments, Nomura shows himself to be very much in search of a center of gravity where the almost ritual repetitions and revisitations of captivating sounds and (often erotic) images dissolve of their own accord into the night, darkness, nothingness, the end of a delirium.”<ref>{{Cite web

[[Publisher’s Weekly]] concludes that Nomura’s poems “succeed through astonishment, shock, and disorder, almost in the manner of [[Kathy Acker]] or [[William S. Burroughs]].” <ref>{{Cite web

* 川萎え [Dried RiveRiver], 1987