Book Series Guide

Author guide

Eric Selland Books in Order

Eric Selland is an American poet, translator, and visual artist living in Tokyo. His poetry includes experimental and hybrid works that combine prose, notebook fragments, appropriated text, and visual elements. He translates from Japanese and has translated fiction and poetry, including Takashi Hiraide's The Guest Cat. He has also written on Japanese modernist poetry and translation theory.

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Eric Selland's Newest Book

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The Condition of Music

The opening work of Selland's completed Hybrid Works Cycle and an early introduction to his hybrid poetic method.

Object States

A representative later poetry collection that can be read independently of the cycle.

Read in order

Books by series

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Hybrid Works Cycle

A cycle of hybrid works combining poetry, prose, notebook fragments, appropriated texts, and philosophical or artistic reflection.

Series guide →
  1. 1
    The Condition of Music

    Book 1 · poetry_collection · 2000

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  2. 2
    Arc Tangent

    Book 2 · poetry_collection · 2013

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  3. 3
    Beethoven's Dream

    Book 3 · poetry_collection · 2015

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Outside the series

Bibliography by category

Poetry (3)
  1. Inventions

    poetry_collection · 2007

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  2. Still Lifes

    poetry_collection · 2012

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  3. Object States

    poetry_collection · 2018

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Other (1)
  1. Brushwork

    artist_book · 2023

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