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Yuko Otomo

A visual artist & a bilingual writer of Japanese origin. She writes poetry, haiku, art criticism & essays. Her publications include Garden: selected Haiku (Beehive Press); STUDY & Other Poems on Art (Ugly Duckling Presse); & Anonymous Landscape ( Lithic Press).

Essay

Painted Silence: Visual Metaphysics

Yuko Otomo

dedicated to Franck André Jamme (21 nov 1947 – 1 oct 2020) 16. Marvelously anonymous. Like an antidote. Or a balm. 26. … The lighter, the purer… 37. Abstraction. To abbreviate. To see it all, finally ...
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Poem

from “A STRETCH IN PARADISE”

Yuko Otomo

Repeatedly tracing the footsteps of the past, I shed my lingering desire for its pastiche. I am almost there to be “here now.” As I keep opening & closing the window, I slowly step into “Paradise.” Now I have no reas...
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Poem

BECAUSE

Yuko Otomo

BECAUSE   I. Because I love to say, “I love flowers because they are beautiful.” It sounds too simple, naïve & almost silly to express my fee...
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Poem

Nightscape

Yuko Otomo

nightscape (for Steve) in the distant darkness an ocean crashes against itself it is silent you stand & look at waves as if they were a fatal dream reality pity, charity or love of any kind do not weig...
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Poem

Moon Walk Blues

Yuko Otomo

Moon Walk Blues I’m not following the moon The moon is following me I just want to go home My hands are closed Half clawed But not fisted For I’m not angry I pace up & down To see the secret of summer I...
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Sensitive Skin Books

King of the Fireflies

Rebecca Weiner Tompkins

A journey through landscapes: urban; rural; mythological; emotional; erotic; cultural; political; and spiritual.
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Sensitive Skin Selected Writing 2016-2018

A selection of short stories, poems and essays published online from 2016-2018.
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There’s Never Been A Better Time To Die

Bernard Meisler

A neo-noir meta satire of late-stage capitalism in Marin County featuring a hard-boiled realtor.
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The Last Poet of the Village

A bilingual (Russian/English) edition of selected poems by Sergei Yesenin, translated by acclaimed Russian-American poet Anton Yakovlev.
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Print Issues

Sensitive Skin 13

The crime issue, w/ criminally insane artists and writers like Peter Blauner, Thaddeus Rutkowski, Catherine Texier, Jonathan Shaw, Ron Kolm, Stewart Home, Julia Kissina, Alex Katz, many more.
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Sensitive Skin 8

William S. Burroughs interview by Allen Ginsberg, James Greer, Chavisa Woods, Ruby Ray, James Romberger, Tom McGlynn, Rob Hardin, more.
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Sensitive Skin 10

Charles Gatewood, Gary Indiana, Drew Hubner, Patrick O’Neil, Tony DuShane, Sharon Mesmer, James Reich, Breyten Breytenbach, Nick Zedd, more.
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Previously, on Sensitive Skin!
Oakland
Yuko Otomo
Ocean fog thick in the avenue night white Christmas lights in October Shamrock Arms Bar glowing green & red through clear quartz-glass block front the Dead Sailor Girls...
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Some of My Friends
Yuko Otomo
“Some of my friends don’t know who they belong to.” Dipsomanic daytrippers kicking it in small motels on desert mornings dancing a june bug sonata percussive staccato ...
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descartes andrei codrescu
Philosophers on Laughter
Yuko Otomo
There is nothing to laugh at. Plato advised keeping it in: no laughter. What are you laughing at? Plato said Homer shouldn't have said the gods laugh. They laugh, you won't. H...
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Shiny Kitten - Marina Loeb
I’ve Got My Shiny Kitten
Yuko Otomo
— for Yun Peng Hell yeah I’m skinny. My body is COVERED in skin! But I’ve got my shiny kitten and I am not the same person I used to be. Shopping naked with my shi...
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R. Crumb illo for Scab Vendor by Jonathan Shaw
Scab Vendor 39 – Sins of the Father
Yuko Otomo
Jonathan Shaw is a world-traveling outlaw artist, novelist, anti-folk hero and underground philosopher, writing in the literary tradition of Celine, Bukowski, Henry Miller and The ...
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