Family Room by Yasuhiro Yotsumoto
Vagabond Press, 2009
Watashi by Shuntaro Tanikawa
Vagabond Press, 2010
At the outset I will say that, though my own latest book Apocrypha was published by Vagabond Press, I hold no financial interest in the press nor any motivation to promote these two books other than the merits I find in them. The first collection under review, Yotsumoto’s Family Room, masterfully transcends the opposition between tradition and experiment; and Watashi, Tanikawa’s 20th collection to be published in English translation, certainly confirms this reviewer’s impression of being in the presence of a major poet.
Ashes in the Air by Ali Alizadeh
Out to Lunch by Andy Kissane
Apocrypha: Texts Collected and Translated by William O’Shaunessy by Peter Boyle