An Incense Verse and Four Invocations
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Jeffrey Angles
Jeffrey Angles is a writer and professor of Japanese language and literature at Western Michigan University. He is the first non-native poet writing in Japanese to win the Yomiuri Prize for Literature, a highly coveted prize for poetry. His translation of the modernist classic The Book of the Dead by Shinobu Orikuchi won both the Miyoshi Award and the Scaglione Prize for translation.
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