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Andrew Campana @andrewcampana.bsky.social · 10/08/2025

This film (and its star, playing a dashing criminal named Heliotrope Harry) was the subject of a poem by a female Japanese film fan who went by the name of MIZUHO, published in a magazine in 1929!: "Clive Brook At night on the street the flowers I buy are heliotropes..." (continued in thread)

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Andrew Campana @andrewcampana.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

A recording of a talk I gave about my new book just got posted on the Cornell Library YouTube channel! I talk about my approach in the book more generally, Sagawa Chika's experimental poems in the 1930s, and ni_ka's augmented reality poems after March 11th, 2011. www.youtube.com/watch?v=1k6k...

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Chats in the Stacks - Expanding Verse: Japanese Poetry at the Edge of Media

YouTube video by Cornell University Library

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Andrew Campana @andrewcampana.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

Sunday morning at SCMS, I'll be giving a paper about Miyashita Yukiko's wonderful HyperCard minigames from the early 1990s—self-described "abnormal stacks by a normal housewife" フツーの主婦が作ったアブノーマルなスタック—as an alternative way into the history of Japanese digital games! @fukubukuro.bsky.social #scms25

A collage of seven screencaps from a book on Miyashita Yukiko's HyperCard stacks—low-res images of pachinko machines, a crab with a dialogue bubble, a portrait of a comedian, a ghost, and Japanese text on black backgrounds saying "Momotaro　桃太郎" and "Specimen Box 標本箱"

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Andrew Campana @andrewcampana.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

Working on a book about poetry in Japan that deals with digital media. Just translated this affecting poem from 2010 by Ogawa Yō 小川葉.

Email Address
Ogawa Yō

I was sure I’d already canceled his account
but when I sent an email
to my dad’s address
I got an immediate reply
No way—
I guess he’s still alive after all.

Delivery Status Notification (Failure)

I guess he must be a bit embarrassed
so he sent his reply in English
but
I don’t really know English

I try emailing him, over and over
and every time, I get a reply right away
No way—
I guess he’s still alive after all
the signal
still reaches
my dad’s room.

Delivery Status Notification (Failure)

There’s one thing
I want to ask him
and I keep writing emails
with that one thing
and sending them to him.

Delivery Status Notification (Failure)

No matter how many times I do it
the replies keep coming
I don’t really understand
what the English means
but I don’t want to understand

Dad
somehow or another
I’m really happy

Delivery Status Notification (Failure)

When I get lonely again
I’ll send you another email

See you later
Dad

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Andrew Campana @andrewcampana.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

My book, Expanding Verse: Japanese Poetry at the Edge of Media, is officially out now in open access! Read it online or download it as a free PDF or ebook at the link below. www.ucpress.edu/books/expand...

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Expanding Verse by Andrew Campana - Paper

Scholarship is a powerful tool for changing how people think, plan, and govern. By giving voice to bright minds and bold ideas, we seek to foster understanding and drive progressive change.

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Andrew Campana @andrewcampana.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

So excited that the advance copies have just arrived of my book!! Will be officially out (also in full open access) December 3rd from @ucpress.bsky.social!

The author's hand picks up a copy of the book Expanding Verse from a just-opened cardboard box filled with other copies of the same book.

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