Yasusada Bib

ARAKI YASUSADA: PARTIAL BIBLIOGRAPHY

(compiled by Kent Johnson, 9/98)
kjohnson@highland.cc.il.us

Collections

Araki, Yasusada. Doubled Flowering: From the Notebooks of Araki Yasusada. Trans. Tosa Motokiyu, Ojiu Norinaga, Okura Kyojin. New York: Roof Books, 1997.
___. Joyous Young Pines: Haiku by Araki Yasusada. LaCrosse: Juniper Press, 1995. (no translator listed)
___. Sentences for Jack Spicer Renga. Trans. Tosa Motokiyu, Ojiu Norinaga, Okura Kyojin. Stout: Bloody Twin Press. [forthcoming]

Poetry in Magazines and Anthologies

Johnson, Kent. "From the Daybooks of Ogiwara Miyamori." Ironwood 10 (1987): 187-91. [four poems]
___. "High Altitude Photo of Hiroshima (circa 1944)." Atomic Ghost: Poets Respond to the Nuclear Age. Ed. John Bradley. Minneapolis: Coffee House Press, 1995. 10.
___. "Trilobytes." Atomic Ghost: Poets Respond to the Nuclear Age. Ed. John Bradley. Minneapolis: Coffee House Press, 1995. 20.
Araki, Yasusada. Aerial 6/7 (1991): 52-59. [three poems within "Renga and New Sentence," essay by Tosa Motokiyu, Ojiu Norinaga, and Okura Kyojin]
___. "Poems and Rengas." Conjunctions 23 (1994): 69-78. [nine poems with introduction]
___. "Selections from the Notebooks of Araki Yasusada." First Intensity 5 (1995): 7-17. [seven poems with introduction by Motokiyu, Kyojin, and Norinaga]
___. "Notebook Entries." Grand Street 53 (1995): 24-30. [three poems with introduction by Motokiyu, Kyojin, and Norinaga]
___. Grand Street 55 (1996): 70-73. [three poems]
___. "Poems from Hiroshima." Stand Magazine 37:3 (1996): 4-11. [England; seven poems with introduction by Motokiyu, Kyojin, and Norinaga]
___. "Doubled Flowering: From the Notebooks of Araki Yasusada: Translated by Tosa Motokiyu, Okura Kyojin, and Ojiu Norinaga." American Poetry Review 25:4 (1996): 23-26. [APR Special Supplement; fourteen poems with introduction by Motokiyu, Kyojin, and Norinaga]
___. "Araki Yasusada's Estranged Poetry Sprung from There." Lo Straniero 22 (1996) 19-21. [Italy; thirteen poems with introduction by Motokiyu, Kyojin, and Norinaga]
___. Abiko Quarterly with James Joyce Studies 16 (1996): 76-123. [Japan; forty-eight poems with introduction by Motokiyu, Kyojin, and Norinaga]
___. "From the Notebooks of Araki Yasusada." Mike and Dale's Younger Poets 6 (1997):: 33-38. [four poems with introduction by Dale Smith]
___. "Letter to Jack Spicer." Denver Quarterly 31:4 (1997) 97-99.
___. Lo straniero 27 (1998): 31. [two poems with letter by Kent Johnson]
___. Sycamore Review 10:1 (1998): 66-70. [two poems with SR editor's commentary in issue preface]
___. East Village Poetry Web1 (1998) [seven poems]

(The following publishers had intended to publish poems by Araki Yasusada but withdrew plans after learning about the work's apocryphal nature: Harpers [New York]; London Magazine [England]; Spectacular Diseases [England, chapbook collection]; Poems for the Millennium [U. of California Press, anthology section]; Wesleyan University Press [book manuscript])

Critical Commentary on Araki Yasusada (arranged chronologically)

Motokiyu, Tosa, Ojiu Norinaga, and Okura Kyojin. "Renga and the New Sentence." Aerial 6/7 (1991): 52-59.
Vogelsang, Arthur. "To Our Readers." American Poetry Review 25:5 (1996): 47.
Bradley, John. "Works and Days: The Poetry of the Next Millenium." Green Mountains Review. 9.2, 10:1 (1996) [double issue]: 140:43.
Wojahn, David. "Large Air: A (Millennial) Notebook." Green Mountains Review 9.2, 10.1 (1996) [double issue]: 63-78.
Nussbaum, Emily. "Turning Japanese: The Hiroshima Poetry Hoax." Lingua Franca 6:7 (1996): 82-84.
Silkin, Jon and Kent Johnson. "The Yasusada Saga." Stand 38:1 (1996): 37-38. [England; letter exchange between Silkin and Johnson]
Weinberger, Eliot. "Can I Get a Witness." Voice Literary Supplement 147 (1996): 8.
___. "Araki II." Village Voice 23 July 1996: 74.
___. "Testigos." Vuelta 244 (1997): 51-52. [Mexico]
Forbes, Peter. "The Hoax Engine." Poetry Review 87:2 (1997): 3-5. [England]
Johnson, Kent. "Interview." Poetry Review 87:3 (1997): 45-46.
Johnson, Kent and Akitoshi Nagahata. Letter exchange. Poetry Review 87:3 (1997): 46.
Silkin, Jon. "Yasusada Revisited." Poetry Review 87:3 (1997): 44.
Cohen, Joshua. "Editor's Note." Boston Review 22.2 (1997): 3.
Perloff, Marjorie. "In Search of the Authentic Other: The Araki Yasusada 'Hoax' and What It Reveals about the Politics of Poetic Identity." Boston Review 22.2 (1997): 26-33.
Bradley, John. "What Is Authentic?" Boston Review 22:3-4 (1997): 34.
Chang, Juliana, Walter K. Lew, Tan Lin, Eileen Tabios, and John Yau. "Displacements." Boston Review 22:3-4 (1997): 34.
Davis, Jon and Greg Glazner. "Bring Back Excellence." Boston Review 22:3-4 (1997): 35-36.
Hirata, Hosea. "Longing for the Real." Boston Review 22:3-4 (1997): 32.
Owen, Stephen. "The Paradox of Values." Boston Review 22:3-4 (1997): 36.
Perloff, Marjorie. "Marjorie Perloff Responds." Boston Review 22:3-4 (1997): 37.
Simic, Charles. "Our Scanda." Boston Review 22:3-4 (1997): 32.
Vogelsang, Arthur. "Dear Editor." Boston Review 22:3-4 (1997): 33.
Weinberger, Eliot. "Three Footnotes." Boston Review 22:3-4 (1997): 36-37.
Davis, Jon and Greg Glazner. "Are the Notebooks of Yasusada a 'Hoax'?" Countermeasures 5 (1997): 1+.
___. "Yasusada, Foucault, and Postmodernism's Weird Gospel." Countermeasures 6 (1997): 20+.
Murayama, Shoji, Etsuko Ohara and Haruki Abe. "Genbaku shijin Araki wa kaku -- beishi shokai, muneutsu sakuhin wa 'honmono' daga ...." ["'Hibakusha' Poet Araki Was Fictional -- Though Moving Works Published in U.S. Journals Were 'Real' ...."] Asahi Shinbun. 9 Aug. 1997, evening ed.: 1.
Nagahata, Akitoshi. "Kaku no hibakusha shijin wo megutte -- netsuzo ka rentai no ganbo ka, genbaku tou giron toboshiku --." ["Over a Fictional 'Hibakusha' Poet -- Forgery? Desire for Union? -- Discussion Slim on A-Bombs."] Asahi Shinbun. 19 Aug. 1997, evening ed.: 6.
Epstein, Mikhail. "Some Speculations on the Mystery of Araki Yasusada." Witz 5.2 (1997): 20+.
___. "Letter to Tosa Motokiyu." Denver Quarterly 31:4 (1997): 100-05.
___. "On Hyperauthorship." INTELNET.
Johnson, Kent and Javier Alvarez. "Interview." Denver Quarterly 31.4 (1997): 106-25.
McGee, G. Preface and Afterword. "Interview with Kent Johnson and Javier Alvarez." Denver Quarterly 31:4 (1997): 106+.
Tyler, Christian. "On the Art of Writing Wrongs." Financial Times 15 Nov. 1997: FT Weekend 1. [England]
Johnson, Kent and Javier Alvarez. "A Few Words on Araki Yasusada and Tosa Motokiyu." Doubled Flowering: From the Notebooks of Araki Yasusada. New York: Roof Books, 1997. 123-24.
Rev. of Doubled Flowering: From the Notebooks of Araki Yasusada. Publisher's Weekly 22 Dec. 1997: 56.
Johnson, Kent and Akioshi Nagahata. "The Yasusada Affair: Ethics or Aesthetics? ... The Kent Johnson/Akitoshi Nagahata Letters." Jacket 2 (1997).
Smith, Dale. "From the Notebooks of Araki Yasusada." Mike and Dale's Younger Poets 6 (1997): 33-34.
Gudding, Gabriel. "Poetry Editor's Notes." Sycamore Review 10.1 (1998): 7-8.
Epstein, Mikhail. "On Hyperauthorhip: Hypotheses on Poetntial Identies of Araki Yasusada." Sycamore Review 10.1 (1998): 71-81.
___. "'Sull' 'Iper-paternita letteraria," ovvero sull' intrigo poetico mondiale e le sue implicazioni russe.': Michael Epstein racconta in ecslusiva per il nostro giornale il caso Yasusada: il mistero piu intricato e coinvolgente in tema di paternita letreraria nella poesia del xx secolo." Il Nuovo Giornale dei Poeti 662 (1998): 3-4. [Italy]
Bradley, John. "The Children of Atom." International Examiner: Asian American Journal of th Northwest 25: 14 (1998): 12-14.
Gander, Forrest. "Poetic License and the Bomb." Rev. of Doubled Flowering: From the Notebooks of Araki Yasusada. The Nation 13 July 1998: 29-31.
___. "Review: Doubled Flowering: From the Notebooks of Araki Yasusada." Jacket 4 (1998)

(Articles have also appeared in the following publications for which I do not have complete citation data: The Manchester Guardian [England]; The Forward [New York]; The Columbus Dispatch [Ohio]; The Sydney Morning Herald [Australia]; Heat [Australia]; Lateral [Spain]; Novoe Literaturnoe Obozrenie [Russia]; Pushkin [Russia]. To the best of my knowledge, critical articles are forthcoming in Sulfur; Gendai-shi Techo [Japan]; Misc. Proj.; and the collections Pretending to be Me: Ethnic Transvestites and Cross-Writing [U of Illinois Press]:, and Experiments in Transculture: Rethinking Russian and American Models of Creative Communication [St. Martin's Press]. Over 100 e-mail commentaries about Yasusada can be located through an archive search at Buffalo Poetics Listserv: http://wings.buffalo.edu/epc/poetics/)