Poets in Japan experiment at the edge of media
During the past century, experimental poets in Japan have been stretching the conventional definition of the genre by creating poems in unexpected places: augmented reality apps, manipulated tape recorders, music videos, protest performances and other hybrid forms.
In “Expanding Verse: Japanese Poetry at the Edge of Media,” Andrew Campana, assistant professor of Asian studies in the College of Arts and Sciences, writes about several of these poets and their work.
A&S spoke with Campana about the book.