MONKEY（英語版）Vol.5 CREATURES: A MONKEY’S DOZEN

発行　スイッチ・パブリッシング
ISBN:978-4-88418-645-6
2024年10月4日刊行

柴田元幸責任編集の文芸誌「MONKEY」英語版第５弾が刊行決定。CREATURES＝「いきものたち」をテーマにした、ここでしか読めない「猿の一ダース」が誕生。最良の翻訳者たちと最高の英訳を作成した特別な１冊です。

【CONTENTS】
6 This Precious Opportunity a story by Aoko Matsuda translated by Polly Barton

8 Tamba-Sasayama
a story by Sachiko Kishimoto
translated by Margaret Mitsutani

12 White Dog, Black Crow
an excerpt from The Holy Family
by Hideo Furukawa
translated by Kendall Heitzman

17 A Phone Call from Emily Dickinson a poem by Inuo Taguchi
translated by Leo Elizabeth Takada

20 Bird’s-Eye View
a chapter from Sheltering from Reality by Kyōhei Sakaguchi
translated by Sam Malissa

25 After two years in a first-floor apartment, the tenant realizes that a certain cat would pass along the street in front at precisely the same time each day; following the cat, the tenant sees it disappear into a vacant house; when the tenant first moved into the apartment, the house wasn’t vacant
a story by Tomoka Shibasaki
translated by Polly Barton

28 Selections from
Communications from a Wandering Comet five poems by Makoto Takayanagi
translated by Michael Emmerich

Creatures: A Monkey’s Dozen

36 Cathedral
a story by Hiromi Kawakami translated by Ted Goossen

40 Bearman
a story by Natsuki Ikezawa translated by Chris Corker

49 Other People’s Ghost Stories a story by Kelly Link

56 The Heron
a selection from the novel Gretel and the Great War by Adam Ehrlich Sachs

59 Fish in Muddy Waters
graphic vignettes by Satoshi Kitamura

66 Four Poems Sawako Nakayasu

72 The Q-Town Gazelle
a story by Kikuko Tsumura translated by Polly Barton

82 Hildisvínis
a story by Hiromi Itō translated by Jeffrey Angles

90 Four Modern Haiku Poets on Encounters with Creatures
selected and translated by Andrew Campana

100 A Bear’s Tale
a story by Laird Hunt

104 Discoveries
a story by Hiroko Oyamada translated by David Boyd

112 To Abuse a Monster a story by Kaori Fujino translated by Laurel Taylor

122 A Night in Anton’s Basement
a story by Midori Osaki
translated by Asa Yoneda and David Boyd

130 Utō: A Noh Play
from the modern Japanese translation by Seikō Itō
translated and with an introduction by Jay Rubin

136 True Story and They Say two poems by Eleni Sikelianos

138 An Empty Shell
a story by Ichiyō Higuchi translated by Hitomi Yoshio

146 Remembering Seiji Ozawa an essay by Haruki Murakami translated by Ted Goossen

150 Letter to the Silent Book Club by Eric McCormack

154 What do you do when a straightforward translation sounds weird?
Remarks from twelve translators

Jeffrey Angles on peculiar poetry and lucid prose
Sonja Arntzen on the power of names
David Boyd in defense of weirdness
Ted Goossen on translating onomatopoeias
Kendall Heitzman on discovering what a thing meant
Sam Malissa on putting the pieces together Jay Rubin on the freedom to improvise
Mariko Saitō on Japanese loanwords in Korean
Motoyuki Shibata on “you”
Asa Yoneda on rooms to dream in
Hitomi Yoshio on titles and cover designs
Anna Zielinska-Elliott on the temptation to add