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From the Edges of Disaster: Tanaka Takuya’s Poems on 3/11 and Tōkaimura

Tuesday, January 04, 2022

Based on excerpts from: From the Edges of Disaster: Tanaka Takuya’s Poems on 3/11 and Tōkaimura Co-translated by Edith Sarra and Yasuko Ito Watt with Introduction by Edith Sarra, Red Moon Press in 2021.

This manuscript began as a translation of 50 poems by Tanaka Takuya that Professor Emerita Yasuko Ito Watt and Professor Edith Sarra collaborated on in 2013. In 2014, their translations won the William F. Sibley Memorial Prize in Translation of Japanese Literature and were published on the University of Chicago’s website. They continued translating more poetry by Tanaka over the next few years, focusing on his use of poetry as a medium for voicing political/environmental critique—specifically in response to the “triple disasters” of March 2011, and a nuclear accident in 1999 that, although under-reported at the time, highlighted the Tōhoku region’s status as an “internal colony.” The volume is now about 150 pages, with the poems and translations in bilingual format so that the text may be used as a teaching tool in intermediate and upper level Japanese language and literature courses, and in courses on literary translation.

Description of the video:

0:12 [音楽]
0:33 横揺れの後の花げしき縦揺れに変えつつ
0:37 教室の扉を開く
0:41 ブーン4社 eve ac 天井ツヴァイ
0:44 ワームあ分
0:46 ip my friends ファイル
0:48 オープンカーシャンプー
0:52 避難開始の合図と共に歩き出す生徒100
0:56 に夕闇の中
1:00 アプ水のてぃくしょキュアハンディ
1:02 チューブ0円 g ビター県 d ね
1:11 崩壊寿司民家の岩の犬小屋の一匹の犬
1:17 悲しげに置い
1:21 anoano ns 1しゃああ
1:24 バウンダーも相撲それ
1:31 消えてゆく
1:32 体育館のフロアに座り込みたる人がまた
1:37 あり
1:40 チェチュンス os キャリングコーン
1:43 クレアールピーポー保存 welly
1:45 シェルディア
1:47 [音楽]
1:50 振替数余震のたびに沸き起こる声も次第に
1:55 彫って行きたり
1:59 even the voices ザ
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2:03 abef ファッション rame
2:10 ポーション道は目に見えないな地震なら
2:14 わかるからねとつぶやいており
2:19 謝る
2:20 ウィリーはちゅりー
2:22 ukfc
2:25 arere snow
2:30 粛々と一へ行く臨時避難所に我が子を探す
2:36 声が響きん
2:40 ディキャンプリー少女 s フリージング
2:42 for free サウン ext 4 s
2:46 ペインティングちゃーん

If you are interested in purchasing the book, click here to go to the publication page. 

Link to authors:

Yasuko Ito Watt https://ealc.indiana.edu/people/watt-yasuko-ito.html
Edith Sarra https://ealc.indiana.edu/people/sarra-edith.html

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