Japanese experimental poetic practices from the 1920s onward actively aimed to disrupt the norms of media in each era, contends Andrew Campana, assistant professor in the Department of Asian Studies. In a live, hybrid Chats in the Stacks book talk Campana will discuss his new book, Expanding Verse: Japanese Poetry at the Edge of Media (University of California Press, 2024) which centers hybrid poetic forms in modern and contemporary Japan including the cinepoem, the tape recorder poem, the protest performance poem, the music video poem, the online sign language poem, and the augmented reality poem. Drawing together approaches from literary, media, and disability studies, Campana shows how these poets each push back against the new media technologies of their day, find new possibilities at the edge of media, and in so doing challenge dominant conceptions of both who counts as a poet, and what counts as poetry. This talk was hosted by Olin Library.
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