OUTSIDE IN - Hinges and Swivels

A. Robert Lee's latest collection, a successor to Suspicious Circumstances (2021), continues his endeavour to enter and track a universe where language is never quite servant nor master.
He was Professor in the English department at Nihon University Tokyo, Japan, 1997-2011.
British-born, he previously taught for almost three decades at the University of Kent, UK. His creative work includes Japan Textures: Sight and Word, with Mark Gresham (2007), Tokyo Commute: Japanese Customs and Way of Life Viewed from the Odakyu Line (2011), and the collections Ars Geographica: Maps and Compasses (2012), Portrait and Landscape: Further Geographies (2013), Imaginarium: Sightings, Galleries, Sightlines (2013), Off Course: Roundabouts and Deviations (2016), Written Eye: Visuals/Verse (2017), Alunizaje/Lunar Landings, with Blas Miras, Writer Directory: A Book of Encounters (2019), Daylong, Nightlong, 24-Hour Poetry (2020), Suspicious Circumstances: An Album of Events and Oddities and Thoughts on the word What. (2020), and Time Travels (2022).
Among his academic publications are Multicultural American Literature: Comparative Black, Native, Latino/a and Asian American Fictions (2003), which won the American Book Award in 2004, Gothic to Multicultural: Idioms of Imagining in American Literary Fiction (2009), Modern American Counter Writing: Beats Outriders, Ethnics (2010), The Beats: Authorships, Legacies (2019), Designs of Blackness: Mappings in the Literature and Culture of Afro-America, 25th Anniversary Edition (2020), and Native North American Authorship: Text, Breath, Modernity (2022).
Currently he lives in Murcia, Spain. Under Sun.