Andrew Houwen

Bio

Andrew Houwen is an associate professor at Tokyo Woman's Christian University. His article on Ezra Pound's translation of the Noh play Takasago was awarded the Ezra Pound Society Article Prize in 2014 and his first academic monograph, Ezra Pound's Japan, was published with Bloomsbury in 2021.

Contributions

“Tokio Takes Over, Where Paris Stopped”: Kitasono Katué’s VOU

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When attention is paid to Japanese poetry in Anglo-American culture, it is overwhelmingly to what Hosea Hirata observes are considered “authentically ‘Japanese’ texts, such as haiku and waka.” [1] Modern Japanese poetry—and certainly modernist Japanese poetry—have long been relatively overlooked because of their perceived “inauthenticity” and the sense that Japanese responses to movements such as Imagism and surrealism were merely “a translation of Western texts” (Hirata, Poetics, 184)...

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