Occupation Poet Role Poet Language Japanese Education Waseda University | Nationality Japanese Books Zolo, Plan 14 Name Kiwao Nomura | |
Born 20 October 1951 (age 73) Saitama Prefecture, Japan ( 1951-10-20 ) | ||
La musique et la poesie 2 kiwao nomura
Kiwao Nomura (野村 喜和夫, Nomura Kiwao, born 20 October 1951 in Saitama Prefecture) is a Japanese poet, writer, critic, and lecturer. He is considered one of the driving forces behind contemporary Japanese poetry.
Contents
- La musique et la poesie 2 kiwao nomura
- Forrest Gander and Kyoko Yoshida reading Kiwao Nomuras CodaMOV
- Biography
- Literary style
- Books of poetry translated in English
- Books of poetry in Japanese a selection
- Collaborative books of poetry
- Awards
- References
Forrest Gander and Kyoko Yoshida reading Kiwao Nomura's "Coda".MOV
Biography
Nomura initially focused on an academic career: he studied Japanese and French literature, and taught for a number of years at various schools in Tokyo, including Meiji University and Waseda University. Since around 2000, however, he has concentrated exclusively on creative work – as a poet, performer, critic, publisher, and organizer of poetry festivals.
Literary style
The work of Nomura “plays with language in radical and diverse ways, employing subtleties of rhythm, semantics, image, gender, punctuation, and repetition, often all within the same short stanza.” Forrest Gander, co-translator of Kiwao Nomura’s poetry, noted in an interview, “What we find in innovative Japanese poetries like Gozo Yoshimasu’s and Kiwao Nomura’s has, as far as I know, no equivalents in contemporary poetry in English. The mix of the philosophical and the whimsical makes for a tone that is absolutely weird to Westerners.” According to Poetry International Web, “In all such experiments, Nomura shows himself to be very much in search of a center of gravity where the almost ritual repetitions and revisitations of captivating sounds and (often erotic) images dissolve of their own accord into the night, darkness, nothingness, the end of a delirium.” Publisher’s Weekly concludes that Nomura’s poems “succeed through astonishment, shock, and disorder, almost in the manner of Kathy Acker or William S. Burroughs.”