We could “count the ways” (speaking of poetry). When I was in high school, I memorized a French poem: “L’hippopotame,” by Gautier. The other week, I re-memorized it. Was the task easier ...

In 2017, the French translation of Wago’s “Shi no Tsubute” (pebbles of poetry) received an award for best foreign-language poetry collection from French literary journal Nunc. With his ...