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Nobuo Ayukawa

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Born: August 22 1920

Died: 1616 10 19861986

Nobuo Ayukawa is considered the “pilot” of modern Japanese poetry. He was one of the founding poets of the Arechi group, and translated the work of T.S. Eliot and William Burroughs into Japanese. Ayukawa rejected traditional Japanese poetic concerns, mining his past experiences as a soldier in World War II and paying homage to his literary influences in abstract, lyrical modernist works that collaged remembered conversations among friends with literary quotations taken from Mann, Eliot, Kafka, Pound and others. In addition to being a much-admired poet and translator, Ayukawa was a well-respected literary and social critic. He published over a dozen books of poetry, essays and literary criticism.