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Kiwao Nomura is famous for his electrifying performances. He is revered in Japan where he has been awarded major literary honors including the Rekitei Prize for Young Poets and the prestigious Takami Jun Prize.  His inspired work as a writer, editor, performer, organizer, and critic has altered the landscape of contemporary Japanese literature. Nomura's work is iconoclastic—at once playful and heady, saturated by his interest in philosophy, Japanese shamanism, music and art. Spectacle & Pigsty, a book of his poems translated into English by Kyoko Yoshida & Forrest Gander, is forthcoming from OmniDawn Press in Spring 2011.

Forrest Gander has three books coming out in the spring: Core Samples from the World (New Directions), a collection of poetry, haibun and collaborations with photographers; Watchword, a translation of poems by Mexican poet Pura López Colomé (Wesleyan); and Spectacle and Pigsty, translations with Kyoko Yoshida of poems by the shamanistic Japanese poet Kiwao Nomura (Omnidawn).

Kyoko Yoshida was born and raised in Fukuoka, Japan. She was a participant of the 2005 International Writing Program at University of Iowa. Her stories have been published in The Massachusetts Review, Chelsea, The Cream City Review and The Beloit Fiction Journal, among other places and she is working on a novel about the visit of American Negro League baseball players to Japan in the 1930's.  Yoshida's translations include poems by Kiwao Nomura with Forrest Gander and a play by Masataka Matsuda with Andy Bragen. Currently, she is translating "Park City", Matsuda's new play about Hiroshima.  A 2008 Visiting Scholar at Brown University, she teaches English at Keio University and lives in Yokohama.