The Day Laid Bare by Kiwao Nomura, trans. Eric Selland
PBS Translation Choice Winter 2020 Ulrike Almut Sandig unseen creatures pass through a

unseen creatures pass through a garden at dusk

they go off into free-wheeling megalomaniacal flights of fantasy

and Satanic deceit all fail to deliver the land of milk and honey

The poems of Inmates stage encounters with insects at sites and moments of their refuge

which form an integral part of her books

The Day Laid Bare by Kiwao Nomura, trans. Eric Selland <br><b>PBS Translation Choice Winter 2020</b> Ulrike Almut Sandig unseen creatures pass through aIn The Day Laid Bare, Kiwao Nomura takes us on a tour through hell on earth, much like Dantes Inferno. The parades of flesh winding their way through Nomuras poem are living creatures both human and non human, or often subhuman, but who nevertheless ultimately embody the human condition. The title, The Day Laid Bare, speaks to human life stripped down to its most basic reality vulnerable and powerless. The entire work is overshadowed by the colossal