World Literature Today: Twelve Views from the Distance
By
Takeshi Kimoto
World Literature Today
September 01, 2013
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).