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Adam Thirlwell: On Yoko Tawada, 21 November 2024

The Bridegroom Was a Dog 
by Yoko Tawada, translated by Margaret Mitsutani.
Granta, 85 pp., £12.99, May, 978 1 80351 132 0
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Spontaneous Acts 
by Yoko Tawada, translated by Susan Bernofsky.
Dialogue, 137 pp., £15.99, July, 978 0 349 70423 4
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Suggested in the Stars 
by Yoko Tawada, translated by Margaret Mitsutani.
Granta, 229 pp., £12.99, October, 978 1 80351 099 6
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... by Kazuo Ishiguro and J.M. Coetzee, but one of its most extreme manifestations is the work of Yoko Tawada, a Japanese writer who lives in Germany, and whose work is split between Japanese and German. Her first book, a poetry collection, was published in a dual German and Japanese edition in 1987. Since then she has published novels, novellas and ...

Must poets write?

Stephanie Burt: Poetry Post-Language, 10 May 2012

Unoriginal Genius: Poetry by Other Means in the New Century 
by Marjorie Perloff.
Chicago, 232 pp., £11.50, April 2012, 978 0 226 66061 5
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Uncreative Writing: Managing Language in the Digital Age 
by Kenneth Goldsmith.
Columbia, 272 pp., £15.95, September 2011, 978 0 231 14991 4
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Against Expression: An Anthology of Conceptual Writing 
edited by Craig Dworkin and Kenneth Goldsmith.
Northwestern, 593 pp., £40.50, December 2010, 978 0 8101 2711 1
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Seven Controlled Vocabularies and Obituary 2004, The Joy of Cooking: [Airport Novel Musical Poem Painting Film Photo Hallucination Landscape] 
by Tan Lin.
Wesleyan, 224 pp., £20.50, May 2010, 978 0 8195 6929 5
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... and ‘polyglottism’ (work in more than one language), mentioning the German Japanese writer Yoko Tawada and the French Norwegian (based in London) Caroline Bergvall alongside that earlier, more self-confident polyglottist, Ezra Pound. Perloff finds a precursor for all this in Walter Benjamin, who during the 1930s collected thousands of quotations ...

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