Tadeusz Pióro

'The New Polish Poetry'

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John Tranter

Polish girl: photo -- Poland's Ministry of Foreign Affairs

An selection of poems from Altered State — The New Polish Poetry. Edited by Rod Mengham, Tadeusz Pióro and Piotr Szymor. Todmorden, UK: Arc Publications, 2003. Price: £10.95. This selection was chosen by Rod Mengham and John Tranter.

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Charles Bernstein

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176 pages, paper and ebook. Audiobook is from Chicago and Amazon/Aubible.

Inuhiko Yomota

from 'A Beggar of Life,' title poem translated by Hiroaki Sato

Jerome Rothenberg

[For many years now Hiroaki Sato has brought the work of a range of Japanese experimental modernists into English, among the latest of whom is Inuhiko Yomota, whose book My Purgatory was published in 2015 by Red Moon Press in Virginia. Sato describes Yomota, a prolific writer in many areas, as follows: “Inuhiko Yomota (b. 1953) aptly calls himself a tuttologista.