Pinkaiku
2010
Chapbook
Published by 15 Shudders
Composed using titles from the seminal Japanese pink film (pinku eiga) porn genre, Pinkaiku takes advantage of the poetry found in translation to create a series of tender and often humorous free haiku exploring the universal politics of love, loss and desire. By employing a tradition of Japanese poetry which avoided themes of sex and violence, while alluding to pink film’s triple-bill form, Pinkaiku plays with an exploitative genre’s imagist potential in order to return meaning to those naming structures intended to reduce content to the ‘money shot’.
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