Inuo Taguchi (Inuo, his pen name, literally means Dog Man) was born in 1967, one year after the Tokyo Olympics which heralded the end of the ‘post-war’ years and the start of the economic miracle in Japan. He grew up in Tokyo, able to enjoy those days of go-go economy, but it was only after the bubble burst and the stock market collapsed that he started writing poetry. At the same time the Berlin Wall and the Soviet Union were also falling. His first book of poetry 20th Century Orphan came out in 1995 right in the middle of the Japan’s economic debacle, while the world was quickly shifting from the cold but stable East-West paradigm to new bubbles of uncertainty and hostility [...]
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