Torii Shozo (20 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. Fine copy, unmarked and clean---scarce very cool book.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 193 pp., bibliography. corner of front cover has a large crease. Bearded Cones & Pleasure Blades contains all of the poetry of Torii Shozo (1932-99) in English translation for the first time. Taylor Mignon took a decade to produce his painstaking translation. Shiraishi Kazuko introduces the work, and Taylor adds an essay. It is illustrated by Torii's fellow VOU Club poets/artists KitasonoKatue and Yamamoto Kansuke. Torii Shozo situated himself poetically in a unique position straddling two worlds. His erudite knowledge of surrealism is marked in his poetry by endearing references to international avant-garde heroes and their works. His method of poetic production owes to the haiku tradition of juxtaposing concrete particulars unexpectedly, for intensely imagistic works. This unique, hybrid method set himapart from his more minimalist poetic brethren by figuratively supplementing flesh on the "exquisite corpse." Literal references to lines by Santoka and Matsuo Basho, among others, were fused in his last volume, Wind Semiotics, in which the irony, eroticism and violence are presented humorously. …

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Paperback. Condition: Very Good.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. "Bearded Cones & Pleasure Blades: The Collected Poems of Torii Shozo" by Torii Shozo. This copy: Limited Edition of 1,000 copies. highmoonoon (Hollywood), 2013. xv, 193 pp. Binding: Softcover. Dust jacket: None. Size: 21.0 x 17.0 cm Weight: 0.7 kg Language: English Condition: Body: Good. Minor rubbing and light signs of use. Binding: Very Good. Sound and clean softcover binding. Edges: Very Good. Clean and well preserved. Pages: Very Good. Clean and well preserved. Text: Very Good. Clean and well preserved. Description: Translated by Taylor Mignon with Yarita Misako and including an introduction by Shiraishi Kazuko, as stated on the title page. Shipping from Tokyo, Japan. International shipping available. Please note: All sales are final, especially for higher-value items. Returns are not accepted unless the item is significantly not as described. Stock availability may change, as our listings are shared with a physical bookstore.…

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Condition: Fine. Number of pages: 214p Size: 18cm Number of books: 1 book.

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Condition: Fine. Number of pages: 184p Size: 18cm.

Kl.-8vo. 56 nn. S. m. 3 ganzs. Orig.-Radierungen. OLn. Torii Shozo (1932-1994) was a member of the influential avant-garde journal group VOU (pronounced "Vow"), edited by his esteemed mentor, Kitasono Katue. Torii's first book, published at the age of 22, was A Bibliophile's Notebook, a book of essays on the books he loved. 8 volumes of his poetry, mostly in limited editions of between 125-300 copies, were published between 1955 and 1994. He was a private publisher of fine, rare poetry books specially bound and printed on washi paper, in addition to the journal he edited, TRAP. Among the pioneering Japanese poets and artists he published in TRAP, were poets overseas such as Lawrence Ferlinghetti and David Mamet and photography by Nicole Rousmaniere. His book collection of Japanese and Western Modernism and Surrealism is one of the most formidable in Japan.…

Condition: Fine. Number of pages: 43p. 3 sheets size: 46 pages Number of books: 1.

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Condition: Fine. Size: 18x12cm Number of books: 2.

Condition: Fine. The book is in fine condition.

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Condition: Fine. The book is in fine condition.

Condition: Fine. Number of books: 91 books.

Condition: Fine. Number of books: 91 books.