The Day Laid Bare by Kiwao Nomura, trans. Eric Selland
PBS Translation Choice Winter 2020 Tiffany Atkinson is an extended praise-song for

is an extended praise-song for the Greek and Latin literature she grew up with as a schoolgirl

or Casualty Book – which gives this book its title – is an official record of the casualty and sickness details for more than fifteen thousand soldiers of the Norfolk Regiment during the First World War

singing praise to life

This new collection

The Day Laid Bare by Kiwao Nomura, trans. Eric Selland <br><b>PBS Translation Choice Winter 2020</b> Tiffany Atkinson is an extended praise-song forIn 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