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Jeffery Angles is the translator for our September 2024 group read,The Book of the Dead by Shinobu Orikuchi.

"Jeffrey Angles (¥¸¥§¥Õ¥ê©`?¥¢¥ó¥°¥ë¥¹) (born 1971) is a poet who writes free verse in his second language, Japanese. He is also an American scholar of modern Japanese literature and an award-winning literary translator of modern Japanese poetry and fiction into English. He is a professor of Japanese language and Japanese literature at Western Michigan University. Among his awards are the Japan¨CU.S. Friendship Commission Prize for the Translation of Japanese Literature in 2009 for his translation of Forest of Eyes: Selected Poems of Tada Chimako by Chimako Tada and the 2017 Yomiuri Prize for Literature in the poetry category for his own Japanese-language poetry collection Watashi no hizukehenkosen ("My International Date Line")."
(From Wikipedia, accessed 09/18/2024)

He is the translator for our previous buddy read of Godzilla and Godzilla Raids Again by Shigeru Kayama:

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I have greatly enjoyed his English translations of the works of It¨­ Hiromi (and their recorded joint readings).

Angles Major Works:

Translations:
Arai, Takako (2019), Jeffrey Angles (ed.), Factory Girls: Selected Poems of Takako Arai , translated by Jeffrey Angles; Jen Crawford; Carol Hayes; Rina Kikuchi; You Nakai; Sawako Nakayasu, Notre Dame, IN: Action Books, ISBN 9780900575846
It¨­, Hiromi (2009), Killing Kanoko: Selected Poetry of Hiromi It¨­, Notre Dame, IN: Action Books, ISBN 978-0-9799755-4-7
It¨­, Hiromi (2014), Wild Grass on the Riverbank, Notre Dame, IN: Action Books, ISBN 978-0-9898048-4-4
Hiromi It¨­; Hirata Toshiko; Takako Arai (2016), Jeffrey Angles (ed.), Poems of Hiromi It¨­, Toshiko Hirata & Takako Arai, Newtown, Australia: Vagabond Press, ISBN 978-1922181749
It¨­, Hiromi (2020), Killing Kanoko / Wild Grass on the Riverbank, London: Tilted Axis Books, ISBN 978-1-911284-42-0
It¨­, Hiromi (2022), The Thorn Puller, Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, ISBN 978-1-4529-6985-5
?saki, Sayaka (2023), Noisy Animal, Newtown, NSW: Vagabond Press, ISBN 978-1-925735-48-2
Orikuchi, Shinobu (2016), The Book of the Dead, Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, ISBN 978-0816688104
Tada, Chimako (2010), Forest of Eyes: Selected Poetry of Tada Chimako, Berkeley: University of California Press, ISBN 978-0-520-26051-1
Takahashi, Mutsuo (2010), Intimate Worlds Enclosed, Sakura: Kawamura Memorial Art Museum
Takahashi, Mutsuo (2012), Twelve Views from the Distance, Minnesota: University of Minnesota Press, ISBN 978-0816679362
Takahashi, Mutsuo (2019), Locus Amoenus, Tokyo: Heibonsha, ISBN 978-4582620665
Takahashi, Mutsuo (2023), Only Yesterday, Marfa, TX: Canarium Books, ISBN 978-1-7344816-5-5
Tawada, Yoko (2017), Time Differences, 1913¨C1938, Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, ISBN 978-0-8248-3242-1

Author:
Angles, Jeffrey (2011), Writing the Love of Boys: Origins of Bish¨­nen Culture in Modernist Japanese Literature, Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, ISBN 978-0-8166-6970-7
Angles, Jeffrey (2016), These Things Here and Now: Poetic Responses to the March 11, 2011 Disasters, Tokyo: Josai University Educational Corporation University Press, ISBN 978-4-907630-54-6.
Angles, Jeffrey (2016), Watashi no hizukehenk¨­sen ¤ï¤¿¤·¤ÎÈÕ¸¶‰ä¸ü¾€, Tokyo: Shich¨­sha, ISBN 978-4783735403

Editor:
Angles, Jeffrey; Rimer, J. Thomas, eds. (2006), Japan: A Traveler's Literary Companion, Berkeley: Whereabouts Press, ISBN 978-1-883513-16-0
"Special issue on Hiromi It¨­, U.S.-Japan Women's Journal, vol. 32.", U.s.-Japan Women's Journal. English Supplement, Tokyo: Josai International University, 2007, ISSN 1059-9770

A few interviews:

- after publication of Godzilla and Godzilla Raids Again

- on translation of Japanese poetry

- joint interview with Ito Hiromi