A collection of love poems addressed to an adverb, Anon meditates on the temporal "at once" between desire and language.

From the playful verses of Slovenia's Tomaz Salamun to the brushstrokes of an Edo period painting, Two Gibbons Reaching for the Moon by Japan's Ito Jakuchu, a character for the displaced Beloved emerges in this tapestry of time and art across borders.

In Anon, the Beloved reflects: How might translating a human experience, from one language to the next, be an act of longing for the anonymous Other? Or how might this longing for beauty, and the wordless face, heal us both? How might Eros, in exile, respond? With these questions, Vietnam's Mekong delta becomes the book's central force. Endangered gibbons swing from the ruins of ecocide, and each image―rose, ape, and river―weaves itself into an undercurrent of postcolonial time.

Author: Sophia Terazawa
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Deep Vellum Publishing
Published: 02/07/2023
Pages: 140
Weight: 0.35lbs
Size: 7.40h x 5.40w x 0.50d
ISBN: 9781646052219


Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 07/24/2023

About the Author
Sophia Terazawa is the author of two poetry collections with Deep Vellum, along with two chapbooks, I AM NOT A WAR (Essay Press), a winner of the 2015 Essay Press Digital Chapbook Contest, and Correspondent Medley (Factory Hollow Press), winner of the 2018 Tomaz Salamun Prize. She's a graduate of the University of Arizona's MFA program, where she also served as Poetry Editor of Sonora Review. She currently teaches at Virginia Tech.