tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5669027158753952.post1439794749724424737..comments2024-01-28T00:29:16.605-08:00Comments on Susan M. Schultz's Blog: "I AM SURPRISED WHEN THE SAME SEASON RETURNS": Albert Saijo in Volcanosusanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16934944559857117395noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5669027158753952.post-60371248239664590642023-11-28T19:42:13.943-08:002023-11-28T19:42:13.943-08:00I thought I'd responded to Rick here, but I do...I thought I'd responded to Rick here, but I don't see it. Please email me at smspoetryprof@gmail.compress.tinfishhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07500196818141803411noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5669027158753952.post-18091168878173301442023-11-28T19:40:01.132-08:002023-11-28T19:40:01.132-08:00Aloha Rick--sorry for delay! No one writes comment...Aloha Rick--sorry for delay! No one writes comments any more, so I rarely check. The UofH event was indeed with those three poets. I was there, and Bamboo Ridge, I believe, made a cassette recording of the reading. They did a game of read one poem, then respond with another, etc., so it was a very active reading. And the place was bursting to the gills. Here's a photo of the reading CD (high tech!): http://gulfbookpoem.blogspot.com/2014/06/nanao-gary-snyder-and-albert-saijo-cd.html. If you'd like to chat further, try me at smspoetryprof@gmail.compress.tinfishhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07500196818141803411noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5669027158753952.post-10394351290150471642023-10-31T13:39:23.457-07:002023-10-31T13:39:23.457-07:00Susan,
I discovered your pages this week while loo...Susan,<br />I discovered your pages this week while looking for information about Albert Saijo. Thank you for all your posts! Would you know any more about the genesis of the UofH presentation in 2000 with Saijo, Snyder, & Sakaki? I attended a gathering in Cymbidium Acres at a home or retreat called Fire Mountain (I believe) that winter with Gary Snyder but, but was not familiar with Saijo or Sakaki at that time, so not sure whether they were the other two poets. Do you know of this event?<br />RickRickhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14345508972616673752noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5669027158753952.post-63285561361421432222012-05-04T09:40:33.681-07:002012-05-04T09:40:33.681-07:00Thanks, Kev. Actually, it's Sakaki, so I'...Thanks, Kev. Actually, it's Sakaki, so I'll correct it now.susanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16934944559857117395noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5669027158753952.post-77193905698580221972009-07-12T16:02:18.660-07:002009-07-12T16:02:18.660-07:00Aryanil--also try Don Mee Choi, Barbara Jane Reyes...Aryanil--also try Don Mee Choi, Barbara Jane Reyes, Yunte Huang, Craig Perez (from Guam) and others who do have linguistic reach. Oh and Steve Bradbury is a marvelous translator who lives in Taiwan (just to mix identities!)susanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16934944559857117395noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5669027158753952.post-89565196920876911272009-07-12T11:52:35.369-07:002009-07-12T11:52:35.369-07:00EJ--you might also find an early book by Saijo to ...EJ--you might also find an early book by Saijo to be of interest. It's called _The Backpacker_ and is a guide to walking in the wilderness (so called!). The art is by his older brother, Gompers. I just got it on-line. Very practical, but also includes Saijo wisdom in it.susanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16934944559857117395noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5669027158753952.post-25469639702421973322009-07-12T11:17:45.410-07:002009-07-12T11:17:45.410-07:00I had never heard of this poet before and bought a...I had never heard of this poet before and bought a copy of his book OUTSPEAKS because of your blog and the link to Juliana Spahr's review. Thanks, I am excited for its arrival.<br /><br />E.J. McAdamsE. J. McAdamshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02530866593971752602noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5669027158753952.post-41937817872329789922009-07-12T11:10:22.116-07:002009-07-12T11:10:22.116-07:00Aryanil--thanks for your comment. Timothy Yu'...Aryanil--thanks for your comment. Timothy Yu's new book takes this question on to some extent, as well as reasons why there may not be an Asian American culture in the way there is an African American one. And I should have added that among the things Albert has studied is Asian languages; he had a long conversation on one of our trips there with Zhang Er on Chinese poetry. You might also look to someone like Sawako Nakayasu who writes in English and translates from Japanese. Or Walter Lew, who has studied Korean literature and written pretty extensively on it.susanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16934944559857117395noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5669027158753952.post-51067281945286264492009-07-12T07:27:27.665-07:002009-07-12T07:27:27.665-07:00This might just spawn off a side-discussion or lef...This might just spawn off a side-discussion or left to rot in the margins. The more fundamental question about classifying poetry with race/religion/nationality divides. As an Asian American, I have had great discomfort letting my work carry a tag like that. Race-tagged literature in America today tends to vilify the grand notion of a melting-pot in the first place, I think. Secondly, a very large percentage of such literature does not seem to carry any real language or cultural experience to qualify for such a genre. A great deal of Asian American literature coming from second generation Asian Americans contain very little Asia in them. Very few of them can read or write in their mother tongues, are grossly unaware of the intricacies of eastern languages, cultures, literary heritages, are hardly aware of the new writers of their country or language of origin. Why safe-haven the work as "Asian-American" or "Jewish American" etc. ? Unless an ethnic literature attains a common culural consensus, like lets say, African American literature, is it wise to continue to categorize literature by race/religion/nationality and not by language alone ?<br /><br />That's the central question for me.<br /><br />I keep looking for Asian American writers who can write in Asian languages or in both languages but hardly find anyone.<br /><br />Aryanil MukherjeeAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5669027158753952.post-72659884907725386772009-07-09T02:36:33.804-07:002009-07-09T02:36:33.804-07:00Hep cat walks alone
Albert Saijo smelling rain
lis...Hep cat walks alone<br />Albert Saijo smelling rain<br />listen: birds and wind.<br /><br />Dogs howl tonight in moonlight<br />full moon wobbles as it wanes.Richardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01849152913676848788noreply@blogger.com