FRINK Linked Data Fragments server

Matches in SemOpenAlex for { <https://semopenalex.org/work/W4320508390> ?p ?o ?g. }

• W4320508390 endingPage "299" @default.
• W4320508390 startingPage "298" @default.
• W4320508390 abstract "The Japanese poet-scholar John Solt is perhaps best known in the United States for his excellent biocritical study (Harvard, 1999) of the avant-garde poet Kitasono Katue, who served, from the mid-1930s on, as Ezra Pound's primary conduit to the stylization of Japanese poetics that he so admired. “Kit Kat,” as Pound fondly called the poet he knew only via their extensive correspondence, was Pound's translator, editor, and sometime collaborator; in return, Pound (who did not read Japanese) wrote admiringly of Katue's work in Guide to Kulchur and elsewhere.Solt has now published a beautifully produced volume of his own distinctive poetry—a poetry that fuses the concision of Japanese tanka and haiku with very up-to-date explorations of what Pound called moeurs contemporaines: riddling short lyrics laced with humor and a telling irony that makes the reader smile with a shock of recognition. In the spirit of Kenneth Rexroth, with whom he studied in Santa Barbara, Solt's seemingly “simple” free verse is carefully structured. The minimalist poems are placed, one per page, in different spatial positions, with the Japanese translation en face. The volume contains a sprinkle of elegies and occasional poems, but Solt's signature poems are epigrams or aphorisms in the vein of the Zen koan: i held my tongueas if it werea ticketThe pun on the word held and the ticket metaphor can be read quite variously: I said nothing, saving my “ticket” for future gain. Or I “held” my tongue as one holds on to a precious ticket for some form of entrance, perhaps erotic. Indeed, Solt excels at the erotic poem—one that is never directly confessional or even personally expressive but that gives the reader a strong sense of a particular moment, as inice cubes meltin the crackleof your nakednessyou roll down your lace stockingsexposing the same designin tattoo . . . where it is the imprint the lace leaves on the skin that produces arousal. We never know who the “you” of these poems is, nor does it matter. We only know—in the case of a neighboring poem—that the lovers have “met again / and again / like spinning tops,” until “with centrifugal force / we easily slipped / outside the windows / of our eyes.” Caught up in the moment of ecstasy, they no longer see one another.In this complex and subtle poetry, comparisons come readily, only to be given an ironic twist: the mind is a kitehe thoughtletting goof both stringsAnd things are never quite what they seem: you toasted“happiness to usand confusionto our enemies”and I laughedsecureuntil a cloud formedin my mindWe have all had this experience of group approval only to wonder—the next minute—whether we really agree. Solt's minimalist lyrics not only make us smile: they also make us think." @default.
• W4320508390 created "2023-02-14" @default.
• W4320508390 creator A5072459165 @default.
• W4320508390 date "2022-05-01" @default.
• W4320508390 modified "2023-10-18" @default.
• W4320508390 title "Poems for the Unborn" @default.
• W4320508390 doi "https://doi.org/10.1215/0961754x-9809333" @default.
• W4320508390 hasPublicationYear "2022" @default.
• W4320508390 type Work @default.
• W4320508390 citedByCount "0" @default.
• W4320508390 crossrefType "journal-article" @default.
• W4320508390 hasAuthorship W4320508390A5072459165 @default.
• W4320508390 hasConcept C111472728 @default.
• W4320508390 hasConcept C124952713 @default.
• W4320508390 hasConcept C136764020 @default.
• W4320508390 hasConcept C136815107 @default.
• W4320508390 hasConcept C138885662 @default.
• W4320508390 hasConcept C142362112 @default.
• W4320508390 hasConcept C164913051 @default.
• W4320508390 hasConcept C27206212 @default.
• W4320508390 hasConcept C2778177712 @default.
• W4320508390 hasConcept C2778184401 @default.
• W4320508390 hasConcept C2778311575 @default.
• W4320508390 hasConcept C2779975665 @default.
• W4320508390 hasConcept C2780822299 @default.
• W4320508390 hasConcept C2781350852 @default.
• W4320508390 hasConcept C41008148 @default.
• W4320508390 hasConcept C52119013 @default.
• W4320508390 hasConcept C556248259 @default.
• W4320508390 hasConcept C94817283 @default.
• W4320508390 hasConceptScore W4320508390C111472728 @default.
• W4320508390 hasConceptScore W4320508390C124952713 @default.
• W4320508390 hasConceptScore W4320508390C136764020 @default.
• W4320508390 hasConceptScore W4320508390C136815107 @default.
• W4320508390 hasConceptScore W4320508390C138885662 @default.
• W4320508390 hasConceptScore W4320508390C142362112 @default.
• W4320508390 hasConceptScore W4320508390C164913051 @default.
• W4320508390 hasConceptScore W4320508390C27206212 @default.
• W4320508390 hasConceptScore W4320508390C2778177712 @default.
• W4320508390 hasConceptScore W4320508390C2778184401 @default.
• W4320508390 hasConceptScore W4320508390C2778311575 @default.
• W4320508390 hasConceptScore W4320508390C2779975665 @default.
• W4320508390 hasConceptScore W4320508390C2780822299 @default.
• W4320508390 hasConceptScore W4320508390C2781350852 @default.
• W4320508390 hasConceptScore W4320508390C41008148 @default.
• W4320508390 hasConceptScore W4320508390C52119013 @default.
• W4320508390 hasConceptScore W4320508390C556248259 @default.
• W4320508390 hasConceptScore W4320508390C94817283 @default.
• W4320508390 hasIssue "2" @default.
• W4320508390 hasLocation W43205083901 @default.
• W4320508390 hasOpenAccess W4320508390 @default.
• W4320508390 hasPrimaryLocation W43205083901 @default.
• W4320508390 hasRelatedWork W2339410534 @default.
• W4320508390 hasRelatedWork W2359932594 @default.
• W4320508390 hasRelatedWork W2374154719 @default.
• W4320508390 hasRelatedWork W2384371771 @default.
• W4320508390 hasRelatedWork W2384758617 @default.
• W4320508390 hasRelatedWork W2596794357 @default.
• W4320508390 hasRelatedWork W2748952813 @default.
• W4320508390 hasRelatedWork W3005062013 @default.
• W4320508390 hasRelatedWork W4242606496 @default.
• W4320508390 hasRelatedWork W4320508390 @default.
• W4320508390 hasVolume "28" @default.
• W4320508390 isParatext "false" @default.
• W4320508390 isRetracted "false" @default.
• W4320508390 workType "article" @default.