Anon
“Anon” by Sophia Terazawa is a poetry collection published by Deep Vellum Publishing on February 7, 2023. This edition, comprising 140 pages, explores the intricate relationship between desire and language through a series of love poems addressed to an adverb. The work draws on diverse influences, from the playful verses of Slovenia’s Tomaz Salamun to the evocative imagery of Japan’s Ito Jakuchu, creating a rich tapestry that spans time and cultural borders.
Readers will find that “Anon” meditates on themes of longing and translation, questioning how human experiences can connect us across languages and cultures. The book’s central force is the Mekong delta, where endangered gibbons symbolize the impact of ecocide. Through vivid imagery of roses, apes, and rivers, Terazawa weaves a narrative that reflects on beauty and healing in a postcolonial context. This collection invites contemplation on the nature of Eros in exile and the complexities of the anonymous Other.
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A collection of love poems addressed to an adverb, Anon meditates on the temporal “at once” between desire and language.
From the playful verses of Slovenia’s Tomaz Salamun to the brushstrokes of an Edo period painting, Two Gibbons Reaching for the Moon by Japan’s Ito Jakuchu, a character for the displaced Beloved emerges in this tapestry of time and art across borders.
In Anon, the Beloved reflects: How might translating a human experience, from one language to the next, be an act of longing for the anonymous Other? Or how might this longing for beauty, and the wordless face, heal us both? How might Eros, in exile, respond? With these questions, Vietnam’s Mekong delta becomes the book’s central force. Endangered gibbons swing from the ruins of ecocide, and each image―rose, ape, and river―weaves itself into an undercurrent of postcolonial time.
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