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Shuzo Takiguchi (1903–1979) was a poet, painter, art critic, and one of the most prominent Surrealists in Japan. He introduced and actively promoted the works of André Breton, Max Ernst, and other European Surrealists through translation and criticism. He also helped revive the avant-garde scene in postwar Japan by spearheading an interdisciplinary art group called Jikken Kobo ("Experimental Workshop") which was active from 1951 to 1957. His first collection of poems, The Poetic Experiments of Shuzo Takiguchi 1927–1937, was published in 1967. In the late sixties and seventies he collaborated with Joan Miró on two books of poems and paintings. His fourteen-volume collected works was published between 1991 and 1998.

Yuki Tanaka was born and raised in Yamaguchi, Japan. He is currently pursuing a Ph.D. in English and comparative literature at Washington University in St. Louis.

Mary Jo Bang is the author of six books of poems, including Elegy which received the National Book Critics Circle Award. Her translation of Dante's Inferno, with illustrations by Henrik Drescher, was published by Graywolf Press in 2012. She is a professor of English and creative writing at Washington University in St. Louis.