Magic Net

In the effort postulation Exophony: Voyages Outside the Mother Tongue, translated from the Japanese by Lisa Hofmann-Kuroda and published by New Directions successful June, Yoko Tawada explores assorted aspects of life, communication, and creation done a lens of linguistic and taste hybridity. In “Paris: This Language Which Is Not One,” Tawada writes astir a poem by Paul Celan successful which the German words for dwindling (Neige) and snowfall (Schnee) look successful adjacent lines, pointing retired that Neige means snowfall successful French. “To me, Celan’s poems person a multilingual operation akin to a magic nett that adjacent captures Japanese, a connection helium ne'er knew,” Tawada notes. Write a poem successful which you deploy a “magic net” that allows you the state to play with associative, expansive thinking, capturing immoderate basal cognition of words successful different languages oregon dialects oregon registers. What unexpected connections tin beryllium made?