3:2 | Japanese Imaginings

POETRY

• Les Murray, Japanese Sword Blades in the British Museum
• Kumagai Yuriya, From the Tower of Paradox \ The Internal River of Time
• Torii Shozo, Paradisease \ Vision Day; from the Japanese by Taylor Mignon and Yarita Misako
• Takahashi Junko, The Mud Boat; from the Japanese by Malinda Markham
• Aoyama Miyuki, Darkness; from the Japanese by Malinda Markham
• Suzuki Masa, Recipe for the Blues
• Kijima Hajime, Unruly Horse; from the Japanese by Kijima Hajime and Koriyama Naoshi
• Terayama Shūji, Real Tears; from the Japanese by Marc Sebastian-Jones
• C.K. Baba, Bufo
• Yaguchi Yorifumi, A Hand
• Wallace Gagne, Akihabara
• Domenico Capilongo, Daruma \ Narrow Road \ Kinkakuji, The Temple of the Golden Pavilion
• Taguchi Tetsuya, Three Untitled Poems
• Erin Noteboom, Untitled Poem \ Spring
• Florence Treadwell, Écriture
• Kjeld Haraldsen, Death Haiku #7 (Mourning Z.) \ Death Haiku #10 (K.)
• Taneda Santoka, Haiku Poems; from the Japanese by Scott Watson
• Heather Spears, On the Bus Through Tsawassen
• Catherine Paquette, I Compose Myself
• Alistair Paterson, Rousseau’s Isle
• Fanny Howe, The Last Day \ We Flew
• John Barton, Pathetic Fallacy
• Ross Leckie, The Elm Dismantled
• Robert Nazarene, Couch Potato
• Iain Higgins, Collarbone \ Collarbone Again
• John Mann, Return the Chit by August 9, 2002, If You Wish to Participate, Mr. Mann
• Todd Swift, My Universities
• George Elliott Clarke, Au Tombeau de Pound (II) \ William Jefferson Clinton III
• Franz Wright, Living Twice \ I Am Listening \ Why is the Winter Light \ Five Octobers (On our Anniversary)
• John Kinsella, XXII \ XXIII \ XXIV

TRANSLATIONS

• Liliana Ursu, Winter Scene with my Parents’ House \ Scene from Apold de Jos \ In the Mirror; from the Romanian by Liliana Ursu, Adam J. Sorkin, and Tess Gallagher

INTERVIEW

• Vijay Seshadri, Interviewed by Jeet Thayil

VISUAL ART

• Okano Haruko, Excerpts from Waiter’s Bill Pad, High(Bridi)Tea
• Courtney Merriam, Wakayama-shi and Wakayama-Jo, Wakayama-Ken \ Itsukushima-Jinja, Miyajima, Hiroshima-Ken
• Judith Miller, Calligraphy

REVIEWS

• Eleni Zisimatos Auerbach, Little Theatres by Erín Moure
• Tim McIntyre, A New Theory For American Poetry: Democracy, the Environment and the Future of Imagination by Angus Fletcher
• Sonja Skarstedt, The Stunted Strong by Fred Cogswell and The Gift of the Hawk by Randy Lundy
• Kimberly Burwick, Café Alibi and Rue du Regard by Todd Swift
• Katia Grubisic, Viral Suite by Mari-Lou Rowley
• Catherine Paquette, Small Arguments by Souvankham Thammavongsa