The Day Laid Bare by Kiwao Nomura, trans. Eric Selland
PBS Translation Choice Winter 2020 Ian Seed public life and sexual mores

public life and sexual mores

of the distances between homeland and edgeland

Matthew Dickman

that undeniable urge ‘to run barefoot/ downstairs// still drizzled with sex or soap/ to quarter persimmons

"Poetry is the antagonist of denial

The Day Laid Bare by Kiwao Nomura, trans. Eric Selland <br><b>PBS Translation Choice Winter 2020</b> Ian Seed public life and sexual moresIn The Day Laid Bare, Kiwao Nomura takes us on a tour through hell on earth, much like Dantes Inferno. The parades of flesh winding their way through Nomuras poem are living creatures both human and non human, or often subhuman, but who nevertheless ultimately embody the human condition. The title, The Day Laid Bare, speaks to human life stripped down to its most basic reality vulnerable and powerless. The entire work is overshadowed by the colossal