The head and the creation of words. Mishima had realized that there could not be one without the other. He had realized that if he had had a head like everyone else, he would be dead in the same way the rest die. Definitively.InMishimas Head, Mario Bellatin trails his sometimes avatar, the Japanese literary icon Yukio Mishima, across a cyclorama of figures and phantoms, where images and memories flash like photographs in passing view. His ritual decapitation complete, Mishimas wanderings are headless and propulsive. Histories and stories come and go. A writers torments are forever.Translated by ShookPaperback | 176 pages | 4″ x 2.75″