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Sept/Oct 2018 • Vol. XL No. 5 • Poetry |

Ghost in Waiting

By Yuki Tanaka

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Yuki Tanaka’s debut poetry collection, Chronicle of Drifting, is forthcoming from Copper Canyon Press in April 2025. He has cotranslated, with Mary Jo Bang, A Kiss for the Absolute: Selected Poems of Shuzo Takiguchi, published by Princeton University Press. He lives in Tokyo and teaches at Hosei University.

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