Non Sequitur Syndrome by Goro Takano

In this book, the desire for clarity is pitted against the lust for ambiguity, and the desire to be saved collides with the urge to self-destruct. Also, in this book, what I am (as male, father, widower, heterosexual, poet, Japanese native living in Japan, and so on) coexists with what I am not. Some of the works included in Non Sequitur Syndrome are love poems, while some others are death poems. You may see all of them as love-death poems or poems about poetry itself. Anyway, my only hope is that you will somehow like this book.

—Goro Takano

Goro Takano is a Japanese native living in Japan. His first novel With One More Step Ahead was published in US by BlazeVOX in 2009. His first poetry collection Responsibilities of the Obsessed (2013) and his second poetry collection Silent Whistle-blowers (2015) were also published in US by BlazeVOX. On Lost Sheep, his translation of the Japanese modernist poet Shiro Murano’s 1959 award-winning poetry collection, was published in US by Tinfish in 2017.

Book Information:

· Paperback: 130 pages

· Binding: Perfect-Bound

· Publisher: BlazeVOX [books] 

· ISBN: 978-1-60964-312-6

$16

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