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.
Read the story in the Cornell Chronicle.
