Spectacle & Pigsty

"Forrest Gander has redefined our sense of contemporary Mexican poetry with his wide-ranging selection from Coral Bracho's compelling body of work." --Judge Lawrence Venuti "Mr. Kiwao Nomura's New Inspiration exhibits the extraordinary freedom, the innate openness, and above all the invaluable consolation (that communicates a new kind of lull, an inexplicable respite to its reader). This collection may open a door to the poetry to come." -- Gozo Yoshimasu, author, A Thousand Steps ... and More, on New Inspiration "If I were to count poets in Japan today whose enthusiastic love for poetry is most sincere and passionate, Nomura Kiwao would be on the very top of the list. Perhaps there are many others who feel the same way in their heart. The challenge is to show it in action. Considering the body of work Mr. Nomura has produced in recent years, he is incomparable to others both in his consistency and power to execute." --Makoto Ooka, poet and literary critic "While Rimbaud talks about the path to poetry through delirium, Kiwao Nomura tries to shed poetry in the midst of delirium. As if trying to witness a creation of new poetics at its end, he reiterates his wanderings in delirium--which is perhaps an event that elucidates what modernity is." --Shuri Kido "Nomura commands headlines, and headlines festivals, in his native country for poems that--on the evidence here--succeed through astonishment, shock, and disorder, almost in the manner of Kathy Acker or William S. Burroughs... Gander, a distinguished poet and a prolific translator... teams up with Yoshida ... to generate startling, idiomatic versions." -- Publishers Weekly (August 15, 2011)