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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black">Dear KineJapan members,<br>
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Happy new year to all!<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br>
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I wanted to share the news that my book,<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://www.ucpress.edu/books/expanding-verse/paper" title="https://www.ucpress.edu/books/expanding-verse/paper"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#96607D">Expanding
Verse: Japanese Poetry at the Edge of Media</span></a>, has been recently published by the University of California Press. It’s open access, so it can be read for free online, or downloaded as a PDF or epub.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br>
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There are several portions that may be of interest to those here. Chapter 1 is about poetry in engagement with cinema in 1920s and 1930s Japan: film-poems (<i>eigashi</i>) about Western film stars, the boom of “cinepoems,” and an assortment of other oddities
that don’t quite fit either subgenre. Chapter 2 focuses on a tape recorder poem by Akiyama Kuniharu, a member of the experimental collective Jikken Kôbô (who also wrote extensive histories of Japanese film scores and his own score for Matsumoto Toshio’s<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><i>Ishi
no uta</i>). Chapter 3 looks at the poetic work of the disability activist Yokota Hiroshi, the main subject of Hara Kazuo’s<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><i>Sayônara CP</i>. Chapter 4 is about the feminist poetry of Itô Hiromi and Togawa Jun,
including an analysis of Suzuki Shirôyasu’s film<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><i>Hiromi—A Hair-Plucking Story.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></i>Finally, Chapter 5 looks at Augmented Reality poetry and Japanese Sign Language poetry,
delving a bit into the Deaf poet Tanada Shigeru’s writings on the cinematic qualities of sign language.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br>
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I hope you enjoy it! Have a wonderful 2025.<br>
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Sincerely,</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black">Andrew</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">Andrew Campana<br>
Assistant Professor<br>
Department of Asian Studies<br>
Cornell University</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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