A Kiss for the Absolute: Selected Poems of Shuzo Takiguchi BOTY_2025 In the winelands of sixteenth-century

In the winelands of sixteenth-century Germany

and unexpected mentors

At its center are Pierre Bezukhov

” The Verifiers (New York Times Book Review)

A Kiss for the Absolute: Selected Poems of Shuzo Takiguchi BOTY_2025 In the winelands of sixteenth-centuryThe first book of poems by the great Japanese surrealist to be published in English In 1923, Shuzo Takiguchis first year at Tokyos Keio University was cut short by the Great Kanto Earthquake, which nearly destroyed the Japanese capital. When he returned to school two years later, he was hit by a second earthquakeFrench Surrealism. Takiguchi (19031979) began to write surrealist poems, translate surrealist writers, curate exhibitions of surrealist art,