Wild Lines and Poetic Travels: A Keijiro Suga Reader - Paperback

by Takako Arai (Contribution by), Doug Slaymaker (Editor), Douglas Slaymaker (Editor)

This volume of essays and translations analyzes the prodigious and wide-ranging output of Keijiro Suga. Based in Japan, Keijiro Suga's works are wide-ranging and multilingual. His volumes of poetry have been shortlisted for a range of poetry prizes, and he was awarded the 2011 Yomiuri Shinbun Prize for Travel writing. He has translated dozens of books and has authored or co-authored more than fifteen other books across various genres. He is, by his own introduction, a poet first, but is also a prolific book reviewer, an astute theorist, and an insightful critic. His presence and contributions have been profound in many countries around the globe.

Author Biography

Doug Slaymaker is professor of Japanese at the University of Kentucky.