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Kawatare: Poetry Chapbook
[ Poetry ]
In this 20-page limited edition chapbook published by the esteemed Toronto-based Anstruther Press, Takatsu revisits his travels to Japan, primarily in 2012, as a musician, from the perspective of a writer now. A memoir of the past and lament of the present, it is weighed with concerns of our technologically and electromagnetically charged capitalist society, juxtaposed against the mystical and spiritually-imbued natural cosmos. Kawatare (彼は誰) is a poetic Japanese word for the time of twilight, dusk or dawn, when night and day merge, and one cannot recognize faces. This is also when the supernatural occurs — the worlds between here and there.
ISBN 978-1-988699-11-0
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Secondhand Memories: The First English Cell Phone Novel
[ Young Adult / Slice of Life / Romance / Tragedy / CPN ]
Seiji and Aoi have been inseparable childhood friends and eventually, high school sweethearts. Believing in naive dreams and love, all seems well until a tragedy separates them with a chasm of frozen time. As one struggles with the aftermath, the world moves on, while the other remains still.
Battered by temptation and the pressure to grow up, he discovers that life is more complicated than he thought – and that the heart and mind is quite vulnerable to change. Secondhand Memories is an emotional coming-of-age story: a journey about the meaning of growing up, love, loss and sacrifice.
Originally serialized online in 2008, Secondhand Memories pioneered the Japanese cell phone novel phenomenon in the English-speaking world, marking a moment in history of a new literary movement among thousands of young writers and readers globally. The remarkably unique fusion of simple haiku-like poetic technique and prose narrative has re-envisioned technology, youth culture, community and literature.
After six years of memories and history-in-the-making, the highly-anticipated and beloved novel was officially released on February 14th, Valentine's Day, 2015 as ebook and a massive 6″ x 9″ 558-page paperback print book with stunning anime cover illustrations, interior formatting and graphic design, due to popular demand!
Visit the Official Site for News, Synopsis, Excerpts, Characters, Store, Pre-Orders, Free Downloads, and more. Video blog special, the book, smartphone cases, coffee mugs, wall clocks, pillows, tote bags, laptop and iPad skins, t-shirts, tank tops, hoodies and more available in the store. More multimedia productions coming soon.
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Apparatus: An Anthology
[ Poetry / Prose / Art / Experimental / Anthology ]
The body is the sole mediator between man and universe, the moment between birth and death. Sometimes, there may be unity, love, transcendence and liberation. Other times, separation, lunacy, limitation, atrophy, violence.
In this collection of experimental poetry, prose and photography by 15 brilliant contributors, the physical body and its relationships are celebrated, examined, distorted, degraded, dissected, exposed.
Gritty and grotesque, surreal and transcendental, curated selections from acclaimed and established authors, emerging student writers, local Torontonians or Literary Fiction Network contributors: B.W. Powe, Takatsu, Evan J. Hoskins, N.J. Greenfield, Aaron Capelli, Daven Sharma, Thomas Arthur Farrell, Sierra Marilyn Riley, Skyler Clarke, C.J. Garrett, Deniz Sonkan, Colette Thomas, Nikita Shorikov, Aaron L. Sheng, Mae Claudette Costan
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Espresso Love: A Novel
[ Dystopian / Philosophical / Literary / Magical-Realism ]
In Tokyo, where the System siphons thought, emotions & memories, a literature student meets a strange psychic girl and they embark on an escape from mindless agents, dream worlds and reality itself, in a soul-searching journey for love, for identity and what it means to be human. But all that remains is a peculiar coffee shop order.
The novel examines the human condition, perception, socio-political systems, capitalism and consumer culture, incorporating paranoiac conspiracy theories, surreal cosmic visions, circular symbolism and shifting parallel worlds, with profound discussions of coffee, art, literature and music.
“System is Everything.”
Espresso Love has gained over 1 million reads, Wattys Award 2014 winner, ranked #1 in Science Fiction and #3 in Spiritual categories out of over 100 million stories, and featured on Wattpad, IndieReader, DIG on USA TV campaigns, and various sites.
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ABOUT
Steven Takatsu Lee is a passionate, self-driven, outside-the-box, & award-winning multi-disciplinary artist-entrepreneur and digital pioneer, with over ten years of experience as a design, development, content & marketing specialist, whether in a collaborative team environment or freelance consulting role. Fluent in UI/UX, graphic, web, branding, marketing design and more, he is also a published poet, novelist, publisher, event and community coordinator. With over 20,000 followers and 1,000,000 reads under his belt, he is the trailblazer and advocate of initiatives and movements like smart city social networking apps, education platforms, English cell phone novels, Crossroads Literary Festival, PEN Canada fundraiser Bring the Noise Street Poetry Tour and more. Some of his titles are Espresso Love, Secondhand Memories, Of Forests and Clocks and Dreams, and Kawatare. See his titles or design portfolio