Shuntarō Tanikawa’s UniversesNewly translated selections from the poet's Sixty-Two Sonnets by Martin Rock...

Martin Rock is a poet, translator, and editor living in San Diego. He is the author of Infinite Scroll, selected by Carolyn Forché for the 2025 Tupelo Berkshire Prize, Residuum (Cleveland State Poetry Center First Book Prize), and the chapbooks Dear Mark (Brooklyn Arts Press) and Fish, You Bird (Pilot Books, with Phillip D. Ischy). His work appears in Best American Experimental Writing, Best New Poets, Poem-a-Day, AGNI, Copper Nickel, The Georgia Review, and elsewhere. His translations of Japanese poetry have been featured in Asymptote and Poetry International. He is co-editor of the forthcoming anthology Other Legacies: Great Unsung American Poets (Wesleyan). He teaches writing and climate justice at UC San Diego and is co-director and series editor for The Unsung Masters Series. Find him at @infinite-scroll.bsky, @margotssandbox, and www.martinrock.us.
