Derek Gromadzki
Derek Gromadzki is a translator and poet. He is the author of Pilgrimage Suites (Parlor Press / Free Verse Editions).
Alice Iris Red Horse
Poetry by Yoshimasu Gozo
Translated from the Japanese by Sawako Nakayasu Hiroaki Sato Eric Selland Jeffrey Angles Richard Arno Derek Gromadzki Sayuri Okamoto Auston Stewart Kyoko Yoshida Jordan A. Y. Smith
Edited by Forrest Gander
With a contribution by Derek Gromadzki
Yoshimasu Gozo’s groundbreaking poetry has spanned over half a century since the publication of his first book, Departure, in 1964. Much of his work is highly unorthodox: it challenges the print medium and language itself, and consequently Alice Iris Red Horse is as much a book on translation as it is a book in translation. Since the late ‘60s, Gozo has collaborated with visual artists and free-jazz musicians. In the 1980s he began creating art objects engraved on copper plates and later produced photographs and video works.…
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