Scubadivers and chrysanthemums : essays on the poetry of Araki Yasusada /
Freind, Bill.
Bristol : Shearsman Books,
2012.
"Araki Yasusada, allegedly a survivor of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, has his work published posthumously and in translation in the mid 1990s. The work was widely praised and seemed to fuse traditional Japanese forms and themes with more innovative North American techniques and a sprinkling of French critical theory. However, Yasasuda was in invention, and while no one claimed responsibility for the work, most readers agree that Kent Johnson was the creator, although Johnson insists the actual author is Tosa Motokiyu, the pseudonym for an unknown writer who is now dead."--P. [4] of cover.
Includes bibliographical references.
Araki Yasusada and beyond / Bill Freind -- Can I get a witness? / Eliot Weinberger -- In searchh of the authentic other : the poetry of Araki Yasusada / Marjorie Perloff -- Review of Doubled flowering : from the notebooks of Araki Yasusada / Forrest Gander -- Hyper-authorship : the case of Araki Yasusada / Mikhail Epstein -- Some thoughts on Araki Yasusada the author / Kent Johnson -- The Yasusada notebooks and the figure of the ruined text / Brian McHale -- Doubled flowering : Charles Yu, Araki Yasusada and the politics of faking race / Paisley Rekdal -- "Here is the offering of a sacred name which is [illegible, eds.]" the necessity of anonymity in the entity of Araki Yasusada / Jenny Boully -- Desert music, Hiroshima : the poetics and politics of pseudonymity / Alex Verdolini -- The strange case of Araki Yasusada : author, object / Eric R.J. Hayot -- Araki Yasusada and conceptual writing / Jacob Edmond -- Three dialogues between real and imaginary poets / Martin Corless-Smith -- "A displacement of the main reed into the other" / Farid Matuk -- The authentic poet in the late 20th century : Ted, bp, and Araki Yasusada / Daven Rosenberg -- Illegible due to blotching : poetic authenticity and its discontents / David Wojahn -- Letter to Araki Yasusada / Hosea Hirata -- This is a city with no person : authorial voids among the mess of meta-hyperawareness / Dan Hoy -- After Yasusada / Bill Freind.
"Araki Yasusada, allegedly a survivor of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, has his work published posthumously and in translation in the mid 1990s. The work was widely praised and seemed to fuse traditional Japanese forms and themes with more innovative North American techniques and a sprinkling of French critical theory. However, Yasasuda was in invention, and while no one claimed responsibility for the work, most readers agree that Kent Johnson was the creator, although Johnson insists the actual author is Tosa Motokiyu, the pseudonym for an unknown writer who is now dead."--P. [4] of cover.
Johnson, Kent
Literary forgeries and mystifications