Araki Yasusada, Kent Johnson (contributor), Tosa Motokiyu (translator), Ojiu Norinaga (translator), Okura Kyojin (translator) · 1997 · PDF · Calibre ID 11327
Resurfaced in Rewarded for the Relics (2026-10-12).
Role in the triad
The modern case where the buyer is named: Perloff’s afterword on the American appetite for an ‘authentic other’
Why this book
Collects the notebooks, the editors’ apparatus, Johnson’s defence (Pessoa, Pushkin, Kierkegaard) and Perloff’s catalogue of tells; the Barthes footnote shows an alibi that fixes one anachronism and exposes another. ~23% of notebook-section words are bracketed apparatus.
Quotations
Verified against the book’s own text on the day of the reading.
- “Squatting, I pulled the / turnip up by the root.” (‘Mad Daughter and Big-Bang’, p. 11 [PDF 12])
- “Bear yourself with a serious air through the labyrinth of the market.” (p. 26 [PDF 27])
- “Given the date of this letter, Yasusada could only have had the original French version.” (editors’ note, p. 79 [PDF 80])
- “Yes, we sent to magazines that we thought reached important audiences in the poetry community, both here and in England.” (p. 128 [PDF 129])
- “we would like to propose that if the Yasusada materials are merely ‘fakes,’ then so are the pseudonymous works of Pessoa, Pushkin, and Kierkegaard” (p. 128 [PDF 129])
- “His attendance must have been sporadic indeed since Hiroshima University was not founded until 1949.” (Perloff, p. 156 [PDF 157])
- “What we need are not more ‘authentic’ and ‘sensitive’ witnesses to what we take to be exotic cultural and ethnic practices” (Perloff, p. 175 [PDF 176])
Themes
anachronism · APR · authentic other · Barthes · editorial apparatus · Epstein · heteronym · Hiroshima · hoax · hyperauthorship · Kent Johnson · Perloff · Spicer · Tosa Motokiyu · Yasusada