Yoshimasu Gozo

Yoshimasu Gozo is a Japanese poet, photographer, artist, and filmmaker. He is the author of Alice Iris Red Horse: Selected Poems of Yoshimasu Gozo (New Directions Publishing, 2016), which was translated from the Japanese by Jeffrey Angles, Sawako Nakayasu, Hiroaki Sato, and others. He is the recipient of numerous awards, including the Takami Jun Prize, the Rekitei Prize, the Purple Ribbon Medal awarded by the Japanese government, and the fiftieth Mainichi Art Award for Poetry.