Gōzō Yoshimasu

Gōzō Yoshimasu

Gōzō Yoshimasu ( Japanese 吉 増 剛 造 , Yoshimasu Gōzō ; born February 22, 1939 in Suginami , Tokyo Prefecture ) is a Japanese poet.

Yoshimasu studied at the Keiō University . From 1970 to 1971 he was a visiting author at the University of Iowa as part of the Fulbright program . 1979–81 he was poet-in-residence at Oakland University , and since 1984 he has taught at the Tama School of Art .

He became known as an author and reciter of avant-garde poetry. In 1971 he was awarded the Takami Jun Prize for Ōgon shihen ( 黄金 詩篇 ). In 1979 he received the Rekitei Prize , and in 1984 the Hanatsubaki Prize for modern poetry . He received the Mainichi Culture Prize in 2008 for Omote-gami ( 表 紙 ). In 2013 he was honored as a person with special cultural merits . Yoshimasu is a member of the Japanese Writers' Association and the PEN Center Japan .

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• Elizabeth Sleeman (Ed.): International Who's Who in Poetry 2004 . Europa Publications (Taylor & Francis), 2003, ISBN 1-85743-178-2 , pp. 354 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
• Elizabeth Sleeman (Ed.): International Who's Who of Authors and Writers 2004 . Europa Publications (Taylor & Francis), 2003, ISBN 1-85743-179-0 , pp. 593 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
• at the side (côtés) of poetry. By Gozo Yoshimasu, translated from the Japanese by Jeffrey Angles. In: Guernica / a magazine of arts & politics. November 15, 2012, accessed April 25, 2014 .