Takashi Hiraide

The Guest Cat

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'Careful, elegant and lovely . . . unusually intimate, detailed and vivid' New York Times'Lyrical and captivating . . . I will revisit The Guest Cat with pleasure, much as I return to favourite poems and paintings and memories' Huffington Post'This is a beautiful, ornate read, brimming with philosophical observation, humor and intelligence' Publishers Weekly'Takashi Hiraide, the Japanese poet and novelist, blindsided me. His prose - so illuminating and achingly poetic - made me care. Damn it, it made me care a lot' NPR

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ISBN: 978-1-4472-7940-2
EAN: 9781447279402
Produktnummer: 16289442
Verlag: Pan macmillan Ltd.
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2014
Seitenangabe: 144 S.
Ausstattung: B-Format Paperback
Masse: H19.8 cm x B12.8 cm x D1.7 cm 118 g
Gewicht: 118
Sonstiges: Ab 18 J.

Über den Autor

Takashi Hiraide was born in Moji, Kitakyushu in 1950. He has published numerous books of poetry as well as several books of genre-bending essays, including one on poetics and baseball. His other work includes a novel called The Guest Cat, a biography of Meiji poet Irako Seihaku, and a travelogue that follows the traces of Kafka, Celan, and Benjamin in Berlin. His poetry book Postcards to Donald Evans is published by the Tibor de Nagy Foundation. Hiraide is a professor of Art Science and Poetics as well as a core member of the new Institute for Art Anthropology at Tama Art University. His poetry book For the Fighting Spirit of the Walnut won the 2009 Best Translated Book Award for poetry.