Ryōko Sekiguchi

Poetry. Translated from the French by Sarah Riggs. TWO MARKETS, ONCE AGAIN mingles Ryoko Sekiguchi's amblings in two oriental markets with forays into their languages, stumbling on consonants and vowels while avoiding dead-end alleys . Their unpredictable geometry is a match only to her diagonal writing; we follow her guessing and expecting only to get to an end as enigmatic as the beginning. Ryoko Sekiguchi is a Japanese writer and poet living in France. She writes in her native Japanese and also in French. TWO MARKETS, ONCE AGAIN has been published in both countries. She is also a translator from French into Japanese. Sarah Riggs is a poet and translator living in France. "Deceptively small, this little book packs a wallop. Sekiguchi is a master of the experimental prose poetry sequence...The more one reads the text, and the more languages you know or are willing to Google, the more numerous and intricately interwoven become the meanings and allusions. This is most certainly a book that can bear many readings. Despite the fairly small number of pages in this little book, it is a gigantic work and has a far reach beyond all the assumed cultural and linguistic boundaries." Eric Selland"

Two Markets, Once Again

Nagori: Nostalgia's Season is a translation of Japanese author Ryoko Sekuguchi's French-language book of creative nonfiction Nagori: La nostalgie de la saison qui vient de nous quitter (POL, 2018). The Japanese concept of nagori, as she explains, refers to the time when a season is drawing to a close. Like much of Sekiguchi's nonfiction, Nagori focuses on food, with the food here serving as a vehicle for her meditation on our relationship with time. Her eclectic topics include historical calendars, season words in haiku, methods of food preservation (which she compares to our own destiny as biological entities), and irradiated fruit trees in post-Fukushima Japan. --page iii.

Nostalgia's Season

Nagori

Set in a Portuguese garden, with attention to proper names and their power, these poems reconstruct plant and animal worlds.

Ryōko Sekiguchi

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