Volume 5: Japan & the Beats
Volume Introduction: On the Road of the Beats in Yaponesia, by Taylor Mignon
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Poetry/Translations by Shiraishi Kazuko, Huw Lloyd, Niiro Shinnosuke, Poetry from the Man’yoshÅ« as translated by Kenneth Rexroth, Nanao Sakaki, Tanikawa Shuntaro, Linda Russo, Edith Shiffert, AJ Dickinson, Sam Hamill, Keida Yusuke, Jeffrey Johnson, Philip Rowland, Edward J. Taylor, Ira Cohen, Jordan A. Y. Smith, Michael Pronko, Yamao Sansei, Cid Corman, Simon Scott, Holly Lanasolyluna, Yarita Misako, Frank Spignese, Hillel Wright, Joy Waller, Owen Skelton, Mihiro Kizuki, Richard Oyama, Jane Joritz-Nakagawa, Steve Dalachinsky, Yuko ÅŒtomo, Lawrie Hunter, Yuri Kageyama, John W. Horton III, Simon Rowson, Barbara Summerhawk, Jessica Goodfellow, Miho Nonaka, M. Ninfa Catania, Selected Bareku by Anonymous, Hirata Natsuko, Susan Sullivan, Leza Lowitz, Kijima Hajime, Taylor Mignon
Essays by Shiraishi Kazuko (translation by Julia M. H. Clarke), A. Robert Lee, David Cozy, Steve Finbow, Jeffrey Johnson, Simon Scott
Interview with Nanao Sakaki by Shiraishi Kazuko
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