Background
Sasaki was born in Nara Prefecture, grew up in Fujiidera City in Osaka, Japan, attending Fujiidera Elementary School, Osaka Municipal Hannan Junior High School, and Ootemae Municipal Senior High School.
佐々木幹郎
Sasaki was born in Nara Prefecture, grew up in Fujiidera City in Osaka, Japan, attending Fujiidera Elementary School, Osaka Municipal Hannan Junior High School, and Ootemae Municipal Senior High School.
Doshisha University.
He has published more than a score of poetry collections and travel books His Demented flute: selected poems, 1967-1986 was published in English in 1988. Now, Sasaki lives in Tokyo.
He was enrolled at Doshisha University in Kyoto, majoring in philosophy.
While there he wrote for the college poetry magazine Moby Dick, and his first collection of poems Shisya no Muchi: (Whiplash of the Dead, 死者の鞭 was published in 1970 while he was still in college. lieutenant was called Honey Sleep and was directed by Hisaya Iwasa.
In the 1970s, his experiments with a casual, colloquial style coupled with intellectual rigor helped to shape one major direction that Japanese poetry would take in subsequent generations. Indeed, his writing provided nourishment to a number of other writers.
He has travelled widely.
In 1984 he was a visiting poet at Oakland University in Michigan. In 1988, he travelled to Nepal, Tibet and Shanghai. His travelogues and poetic style introduced many in Japan to both the wonders of the Himalayas, and the modern, and very different, culture of the largest city in China.
He has been active in the field of collaborative poetry, writing renshi under the guidance of Makoto Ooka.
Professionally, he was the senior editor of the collected works of Chūya Nakahara, which were published 2000-2004, and he lectured at various liberal arts and music colleges and universities through 2007. Sasaki sat for several years on the selection committee for the Chuya Nakahara Prize.
He frequently represents Japanese poetry overseas at international poetry festivals and other events.