World Literature Today: Twelve Views from the Distance

By Takeshi Kimoto

World Literature Today

September 01, 2013

takahashi_twelve Mutsuo Takahashi is one of the most prominent contemporary Japanese poets to have thematized homoeroticism. This superb translation of Takahashi’s autobiography—nominated for the 2013 Lambda Literary Award—is an excellent companion to the poet’s other translated works such as Poems of a Penisist (1975).

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