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David Farrah is Professor of English at Kobe City University of Foreign Studies in Japan. He has lectured and given poetry readings in Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia, and the United States. His poems and essays have appeared in various journals, including Asiatic, Denver Quarterly, Kyoto Journal, The Ohio Review, and Poetry Ireland Review. His books Small Sounds in the Brush (poetry and short tales), The Poems of Nunobiki Falls (translations), Parity’s Ground (poetry) and Borrowed Landscapes (poetry) were all published by Shinbisha of Tokyo.