[KineJapan] New open access book: Expanding Verse: Japanese Poetry at the Edge of Media

[Andrew Campana]

Dear KineJapan members,

Happy new year to all!

I wanted to share the news that my book, Expanding Verse: Japanese Poetry at the Edge of Media<https://www.ucpress.edu/books/expanding-verse/paper>, 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.

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 (eigashi) 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 Kōbō (who also wrote extensive histories of Japanese film scores and his own score for Matsumoto Toshio’s Ishi no uta). Chapter 3 looks at the poetic work of the disability activist Yokota Hiroshi, the main subject of Hara Kazuo’s Sayōnara CP. Chapter 4 is about the feminist poetry of Itō Hiromi and Togawa Jun, including an analysis of Suzuki Shirōyasu’s film Hiromi—A Hair-Plucking Story. 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.

I hope you enjoy it! Have a wonderful 2025.

Sincerely,
Andrew
Andrew Campana
Assistant Professor
Department of Asian Studies
Cornell University


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