Tokyoatoto - Couverture souple

Truitt, Sam

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1581771983 ISBN 13 : 9781581771985

Editeur : Barrytown/Station Hill Press, Inc., 2020

Synopsis

Tokyoatoto is made of and from a hand-written book composed by the poet Sam Truitt in the course of a 2019 Tokyo sojourn. The writing includes, among other elements, descriptions, impressions, insights into Japanese life and culture and the concrete exigencies of negotiating a foreign land. This last aspect is somewhat complicated by the fact Truitt lived in Tokyo for four years from the age of three and that Japanese was very close to his first language. Moreover the culture of Japan was also close to his first, so that this influence acts as a palimpsest backfield to the writing as the author both seeks and betimes touches traces of its influence. Tokyoatoto's structure is unique in that Truitt seeks to foreground that movement toward originality by reproducing in facsimile the pages of the hand-written book, with their transcriptions appearing on opposite pages. An engaging, thoughtful and sometimes profound glimpse into contemporary life in Tokyo from a perspective of complicated naivety, Tokyoatoto is a fast, entertaining poetic flight in which, as the author writes on a Tokyo subway passage, "one senses a web each of us hold together & against & around us like a net knit of civility not docility as there are some faraway landscapes in our mind & in our heart & our bodies are dreaming all of them uniting to listen to the underground hum its magic."

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Sam Truitt was born in Washington, DC, and raised there and in Tokyo, Japan. He is the author of the ten works in the VERTICAL ELEGIES series, TOKYOATOTO (Station Hill Press, 2020), among others in print and other media, and the co-editor of INFILTRATION (Station Hill Press, 2016); and Eating the Colors of a Lineup of Words: The Early Books of Bernadette Mayer. Robert Creeley likened Truitt to a contemporary Everyman, and he is the recipient, among other recognitions, of numerous Fund for Poetry awards, a Contemporary Poetry Award from the University of Georgia, and a Howard Fellowship. The producer and a co-host of the podcast Baffling Combustions and Director of Station Hill Press, he lives in Woodstock, NY.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Barrytown/Station Hill Press, Inc.
• Date d'édition: 2020
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1581771983
• ISBN 13: 9781581771985
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 170
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible