Eric Selland
Eric Selland lives in Tokyo. He is the author of The Condition of Music, Inventions, and Still Lifes.
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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The Guest Cat
Fiction by Takashi Hiraide
Translated from the Japanese by Eric Selland
A New York Times bestseller and winner of Japan’s Kiyama Shohei Literary Award, The Guest Cat (by the acclaimed poet Takashi Hiraide) is a subtly moving and exceptionally beautiful novel about the transient nature of life and idiosyncratic, but deeply felt, ways of living. A couple in their thirties live in a small rented cottage in a quiet part of Tokyo; they work at home, freelance copyediting, and no longer have very much to say to one another.…
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