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POETRY
168 Pages, 6 x 9
Formats: Trade Paper
Trade Paper, $25.00 (US $25.00) (CA $34.00)
Publication Date: January 1997
ISBN 9780937804711
Rights: WOR
Roof Books (Jan 1997)
The materials on the Japanese poet Araki Yasusada (1907-1972), a survivor of Hiroshima, were published in Grand Street, Conjunctions, Abiko Quarterly, First Intensity, Stand, and The American Poetry Review, among a variety of major literary publications. Gradually the rumor began circulating that Araki Yasusada did not exist and that the poems were a "hoax" perpetrated by the contemporary Japanese-American author Tosa Motokiyu (who passed away Summer 1996) and/or by the executor of his will, the American poet Kent Johnson.
Kent Johnson, recently deceased poet and US English professor, stands in for the author, Araki Yasusada, a Hiroshima survivor who uncannily writes fully versed contemporary poetry.