Yotsumoto Yasuhiro, Starboard of My Wife and is working on a

and is working on a short story collection of surrealistic science fiction

Her poetry is sensitively translated into supple English verse by the well-known poet and translator

and films by other highly regarded directors of the New Wave

sounding out the ways in which a self possesses time and language

Translated by Leith Morton

Yotsumoto Yasuhiro, Starboard of My Wife and is working on aTranslated by Takako Lento. A Japanese couple lives in Germany. The husband is moved to explore their love and their otherness in a series of poems where the external and internal landscapes are equally foreign. The displaced narrators perspective accommodates the sensual and the mundane, boredom and anxiety, familial stress and personal longing. Starboard of My Wife is a modern take on a 1500 year old Japanese tradition of poems exchanged between