April, 2019

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Otata 40 (April, 2019)

And from otata’s bookshelf —

Stefano D’Andrea, Paul Claudel—Cent phrases pour éventails 
Le Lumachine nr. 32 (febbraio 2019)

Kim Dorman, Kerala Notebook (November, 2018)

Mark Young, A vicarious life — the backing tracks

Please Note: The editor is proud to announce that two installments of eye2word, a book-length work of photographs by John Levy and poems by Alan Chong Lau will appear here in lieu of May’s Otata. 

Submissions will again be considered for the June issue.

∞

Otata mo aru hi wa kite kureru yama no aki fukaku

Otata will come again
one day
late fall in the mountains

— Santoka (as translated by Burton Watson, who notes, “Otata was a woman who went around selling fish in the area of Santoka’s cottage in Matsuyama.”)

Address submissions to otatahaiku@gmail.com