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    Anon
    Anon
    Anon
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    Anon

    By Sophia Terazawa

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    A collection of love poems addressed to an adverb, Anon meditates on the temporal “at once” between desire and language. 

    From the playful verses of Slovenia's Tomaž Šalamun to the brushstrokes of an Edo period painting, Two Gibbons Reaching for the Moon by Japan's Ito Jakuchu, a character for the displaced Beloved emerges in this tapestry of time and art across borders. 

    In Anon, the Beloved reflects:  How might translating a human experience, from one language to the next, be an act of longing for the anonymous Other? Or how might this longing for beauty, and the wordless face, heal us both? How might Eros, in exile, respond? With these questions, Vietnam's Mekong delta becomes the book's central force. Endangered gibbons swing from the ruins of ecocide, and each image―rose, ape, and river―weaves itself into an undercurrent of postcolonial time. 

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherDeep Vellum Publishing
    Release dateMar 21, 2023
    ISBN9781646052479
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      Anon - Sophia Terazawa

      Cover: Anon by Sophia Terazawa

      PRAISE FOR SOPHIA TERAZAWA’S WINTER PHOENIX

      Winter Phoenix gathers up the failures of witnessing. When we try to put violence into language, we have recourse only to devious translation, translations of ever-winnowing meanings. In other words, in the face of brutality, words would seem—in Terazawa’s speech—to ‘stand there and say nothing.’ Winter Phoenix constructs, as its central work, the poetic potentials of retribution, using the so-called truths of war, and of war’s war-like logics, as its primary material. These poems are indignant, historical intervention. They are themselves the question: ‘Who ordered this to happen?’

      —Anaïs Duplan, Blackspace: On the Poetics of an Afrofuture

      Terazawa’s striking imagery draws attention to the fact that atrocity often unfolds amid beauty and asks us to consider what it means to find stunning images in times of trauma.

      —Layla Benitez-James, Harriet Books

      Anon

      SOPHIA TERAZAWA

      Logo: Deep Vellum

      DEEP VELLUM

      DALLAS, TX

      Deep Vellum Publishing

      3000 Commerce St., Dallas,Texas 75226

      deepvellum.org · @deepvellum

      Deep Vellum is a 501c3 nonprofit literary arts organization

      founded in 2013 with the mission to bring

      the world into conversation through literature.

      Copyright © 2022 Sophia Terazawa

      First edition, 2022

      All rights reserved.

      Paperback ISBN: 9781646052219

      eBook: 9781646052479

      Library Of Congress Control Number: 2022945308

      Cover art by Irina Kolesnikova

      Cover design and typesetting by

      David Wojciechowski | www.davidwojo.com

      Printed in the United States of America

      Contents

      Stay

      Julija

      Metelkova

      Eroseros

      Anon

      I

      Across the Willow, [Salix Babylonica]

      The Kiss

      The Kiss, Again

      Brave and Tiny Scholar

      Wake, [Anon]

      Love Lettering, [Anon]

      Roses, Mid-June

      How to Cut through Wire

      Operation End Sweep

      Painted Landscape

      Throwing Rose, [Anon]

      Triple Bridge

      Andante at Her Loom

      O, Lady Queen of Mercy

      II

      Before Rožnik Hill We Passed a Flutist in the Tunnel

      Invasive Love

      Alchemical Devices

      Echo Chamber

      Empress

      This, Our Empress and [Anon]

      Sleep, [Anon]

      Morning Freight

      Sage Possessed the Twang

      Thundering Rose

      III

      Quan Âm

      Book of Panda

      IV

      Self-Portrait as Ito Jakuchu’s Two Gibbons Reaching for the Moon

      Aurora

      Lesser Beasts

      ASMR, Rose, and Graphite

      Appetite

      Translating an Hour at the Loom

      On the Nature of Myrrh

      Coffee Portrait of a Dandelion Child

      Barrel Song

      Pygathrix Nemaeus

      Gibbons Howling

      Acknowledgments

      STAY

      For

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