{"title":"Awai Books","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"9781937220082","title":"Eiko \u0026 Koma（日本語・英語版）English-Japanese Edition","description":"\u003cp\u003e(English follows) 現代アメリカを代表する詩人、フォレスト・ギャンダー。その鋭い感性と卓抜な技量によって、日本にルーツをもつパフォーマンスアーティストEiko \u0026amp; Komaの肉体による唯一無二の表現を、言語芸術へと見事に転生させた。選び抜かれた言葉としなやかに変化する詩形は読む者を魅了し、深遠なる意味へと導く。\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e全20篇の詩作品に、アナ・リー・キャンベルによるEiko \u0026amp; Komaの写真が光彩を添える。\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e現代芸術の担い手による稀有なコラボレーション作品、待望の日本語・英語版。日本語版は中川映里とマシュー・チョジックによる共訳。\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSublime and delightfully observant, this poetry collection by renowned American poet Forrest Gander playfully extends the dances of Japanese performance art unit Eiko \u0026amp; Koma. What emerges is a transfixing, dexterous use of poetic form that transposes a theatre of movement onto the page with delicacy and profundity. This book is enhanced with photographs by Anna Lee Campbell and a parallel Japanese translation by Eri Nakagawa and Matthew Chozick.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eフォレスト・ギャンダー\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e現代アメリカを代表する詩人。詩、小説、エッセイ、翻訳など、その文筆活動は多岐に渡り、数々の文学賞を受賞。ピューリッツァー賞および全米批評家協会賞ファイナリスト。パブロ・ネルーダをはじめ、ラテンアメリカの詩人を数多く英語圏へ翻訳紹介するとともに、吉増剛造や野村喜和夫の英訳（編集・共訳）でも知られる。ハーバード大学、ブラウン大学で教鞭を執ったのち、現在カリフォルニア州サンフランシスコ近郊在住。\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eForrest Gander\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAn award-winning American writer, translator, and editor, Gander is a Pulitzer Prize and a National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist who has translated Pablo Neruda and many Latin American writers, and co-translated Kiwao Nomura and Gozo Yoshimasu. Gander, who taught at Harvard and then Brown University, lives near San Francisco, California.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEiko \u0026amp; Koma (エイコ＆コマ)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e日本でうまれ育ち、１９７６年からニューヨーク在住のEiko（尾竹永子）と　Koma （尾竹隆）はダンスパフォーマンス、映像作品、インスタレーションなどを二人で共同制作。ニューヨーク近代美術館（MoMA）、ホイットニー美術館 などで公演。マッカーサー賞、スクリプス賞など受賞多数。\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEiko \u0026amp; Koma\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBorn and raised in Japan, Eiko Otake and Koma Otake have been active in New York since 1976. The duo has presented dances, video art and installations at venues notably including the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) and the Whitney Museum of American Art. They are recipients of numerous prizes, including a MacArthur Fellowship and a Scripps Award.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56309134524789,"sku":"9781937220082","price":28.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781937220082_03982f5d-37fd-43ae-a279-f1d5a77f2a4b.jpg?v=1786030535"},{"product_id":"9781937220105","title":"Behind the Kaiju Curtain","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"One of the most entertaining yet informative books you will ever read\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eーEd Godziszewski, author of \u003cem\u003eIshiro Honda: A Life in Film, from Godzilla to Kurosawa\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNorman England's gutsy and insightful stories will do more than just entertain. This is the first and only book in English to take you on a deep dive into the Japanese film industry. 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