Miryam Sas

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Selected stories and Poems 

  • “Small but Strong” in Change Seven (Winter 2024)
  • “The Verb of Living Things” in New World Writing Quarterly (April 2023)
  • “Eliminated Bits of Reality” in Meow Meow Pow Pow
  • Poem in Humans of the World
  • “Jonny,” in Sanskrit (memoir/story about my brother with Down’s Syndrome)
  • “Sabti,” North Atlantic Review (about my grandmother when she was ill)
  • “Sabti,” Portland Review (another story about Sabti)
  • “Zapped Fingers,” Jewish Women’s Literary Annual (a memoir of childhood in New York)
  • “Nichijō no naka no yume” (The dream within everyday life), memoir essay, Subaru (literary journal), Tokyo, Nov. 1994.
  • Asunaro (journal), Tokyo. Adapted stories of my grandmother’s experiences during World War II for illustrated publication in monthly series (Sept. 1992-Sept. 1994; 24 stories).
  • Asunaro (journal), Tokyo. Monthly column of creative essays in Japanese (Sept. 1989-Aug. 1991; 20 essays). Essays in Japanese on politics, culture, and poetry (1995-1997).

Translations, interviews, and other writings

  • 9 poems by modernist poet Sagawa Chika (translations) forthcoming in Poet Sagawa Chika: Late Gathering (Brown University Press), along with “Brief Portrait of a Friendship: Ema Shōko and Sagawa Chika” and  “Through the Poet’s Glasses: Thought, Language, Perception,” the latter co-written with Maiko Morimoto.
  • Translations of Ema Shōko and others forthcoming in a collection of Japanese poetry in translation from New Directions Press.
  • “Scent from the Future,” translation and introduction of the 1921 Japanese Futurist Manifesto,
    Cabinet : A Quarterly of Art and Culture, issue 13, 2004; published with an essay on the subject, forthcoming reprint in a volume of “Neo-Visual Poetry” edited by Taylor Mignon.
  • Takiguchi Shūzō, “Document d’Oiseaux/ Archive of the Birds” (1929), in [Five] Factorial (Summer 2006): 37-38.
  • “The Poetry of Ema Shōko: Japanese Modernist Innovation,” edited by Sawako Nakayasu, in How 2, vol. 2, no. 2, Spring 2004.
    Available online at http://www.departments.bucknell.edu/stadler_center/how2/current/.
  • Nagasaki Journey: the Photographs of Yamahata Yōsuke (San Francisco: Pomegranate Press, 1995). Co-edited, and translated fiction by Hayashi Kyōko, theoretical essay, memo and interview with atomic aftermath photographer Yamahata Yōsuke.
  • Collaborative translation of poetry of Takagai Hiroya, with Hosea Hirata and Eric Selland; Luciole (Rushioru) journal, No. 33, March 1998 (Kyoto, Japan).
  • Mondo 2000, Dec. 1994. Featured interview with French performance artist Orlan (written and translated from the French).
  • Book reviews and articles in Covert Culture Source Book; contributions to Newsweek Japan, 1994; 2006.

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Download a free chapter from Finding Zbaraż here.

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About Me

Miryam Sas is a writer, scholar, and professor at UC Berkeley. Read more about Miryam...

Blog Posts

  • Embodiment, Postmemory, Archive January 13, 2023
  • A little scratch December 12, 2018
  • Sayed Kashua’s Fog February 23, 2017

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