Faces
in the Crowds
a Tokyo
international anthology
 Edited by Hillel Wright Foreward by Donald Richie Layout & Design by Joe Zanghi Cover Art by Peter Comaroff Published by Printed Matter Press, Tokyo Copyright 2002 by Printed Matter Press for the Authors Paper, 254 pages, A5, ISBN 0-935086-02-1 Library of Congress: 2002105942 US$25.00, Yen 2,500 (+tax) Distribution (click to contact) kk imcbook welcomes orders from
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Donald Richie writes, "Expatriate literature takes many forms," and many of those will be found in this lively anthology. Tokyo expatriates may yet produce another Hemingway, Fitzgerald or Nabokov though this is a city noted for terrible examples of fractured English. For nearly two decades Printed Matter Press has provided an outlet for the best resident poets, creative writers, translators and also for Japanese who write in English. An eclectic group of teachers, journalists, printers, artists, and others, these craftsmen and craftswomen of the English word meet on the first Sunday of each month (poetry readings 4:00-6:00pm) at the What the Dickens British pub in Ebisu (near Shibuya), Tokyo. The beer adds to the convivial atmosphere. This anthology grew out of those boozy and sometimes raucous meetings. The book is divided into five sections. The first contains pieces by members of the What the Dickens group; then sections by the Tokyo Writers Group and the Temple University Japan Poets. When the book project became known, other local writers heard about it, and their contiributions make up the Word of Mouth section. The last section is by the Editor's Guests, writers invited by the editor. For those who like totals, there are about 80 pieces of poetry and short prose. The writers, all are or have been residents of Japan and include citizens of Australia, Canada, China, Ghana, Japan, New Zealand, Taiwan, U.K., and USA. Authors: Ralph Alfonso. Dario Alvarado. Andrew Armstrong. Georgia Borcic. Sylvia Charczuk. Peter Comaroff. David Cozy. Suzanne DesRochers. Monty DiPietro. Kevin Dobbs. Susan Doyle. Melanie Drane. William I Elliott. Stephen Foster. Wallace Gagne. Morgan Gibson. Jesse Glass. John Gribble. Edgar Henry. G M A Iddriss. Satoshi Ishizaka. Jane Joritz-Nakagawa. Crad Kilodney. Lew Keester. Hihiro Kizuki. Noashi Koriyama. Lesley. Li Jiang. Ryu Makoto. Malinda Markham. Douglas Marvin. Greg McElwain. Taylor Mignon. Gamal Mohammad. Kathy Murphy. Stephen Nelmes. Steven Nickel. Leigh Norrie. Fujio Ogura. Blair Reeve. Richard Russell. Torii Shozo. Tony Skevington. Frank Spignese. Spleen. Gregory Strong. Barbara Summerhawk. Hirihisa Tajima. Shiori Tsuchiya. Atsuko Ueno. Thomas Walker. Hillel Wright. Janice Young. Now Out of Print but you can find it on Amazon.
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