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Speaker: Ry Beville, translator of Nakahara Chuya's Poems of Days Past
Topic: The Poetry of Nakahara Chuya
When: Starting at 6:30 p.m. on Sunday, 27 July 2008
Admission: Buy a copy of Poems of Days Past from Good Day Books Ry Beville has translated two books of Nakahara Chuya's poetry, Poems of the Goat (American Book Co., 2002) and Poems of Days Past (American Book Co., 2005). Beville's translations of Nakahara and other modern Japanese poets have appeared in a Norton world poetry anthology, literary journals, and Japanese newspapers. A Ph.D. candidate at the University of California, Berkeley, Beville is now doing research at the University of Tokyo on form and practice in modern Japanese poetry. He frequently contributes to Heso, a bilingual Japanese culture magazine, and maintains a website devoted at Nakahara Chuya, www.nakaharachuya.com. When not writing or doing research (which is, perhaps, too often), he plays blues guitar.
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