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John Solt is visiting professor at Mahachulalong kornrajavi dyalaya University’s Graduate School of Buddhist Studies and Philosophy in Bangkok. He has been writing poetry for the last 70% of his life, and long ago published three books, The Memories Are More Than I Can Remember (Tokyo), Underwater Balcony (Ito, Japan) and Anything You Don’t Want You Can Have (Bangkok). Solt also wrote Shredding the Tapestry of Meaning: The Poetry and Poetics of Kitasono Katue, 1902-1978 (Harvard Asia Center, 1999) and has had numerous translations published. He moves around a lot, survives without mobile phone, but can be located via a seldom-visited website (www.highmoonoon.com).
John Solt is a veteran at promoting the Yaponesian avant-garde. He was a principal translator of New Directions’ English publication Seasons of Sacred Lust with Kenneth Rexroth as editor. He has promoted Vou poets and photographers and Butoh dance practitioners in journals worldwide, just to mention a few of his contributions. Of course John is a well-known scholar of international avant-garde movements and an impressive archivist.
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Shredding the Tapestry of Meaning: The Poetry and Poetics of Kitasono Katue, 1902-1978, Harvard University Press, 1999.
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Anything You Don’t Want You Can Have
World Congress of Poets: Thailand, November 1988 |
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