Cat Town (Paperback, Main)

Sakutarō Hagiwara remains a singular figure in modern Japanese poetry. His experimentation with traditional forms led to his becoming the most significant pioneer of free-style verse in Japan. Hagiwara's first book of poetry, "Howling at the Moon," astonished readers and was an immediate success--two poems were deleted on order of the Ministry of the Interior for "disturbing social customs." Hagiwara blends everyday colloquialisms with literary language to remarkable and unsettling effect. Through meditations on mundane images of nature like dogs, bamboo, grass, turtles, eggs, seedlings, frogs, and clams, his poetry palpably conveyed the "modern malaise." Hagiwara expanded on "an invalid's" perception of the world in his second book of poems, "The Blue Cat." Both of his major published books are included here in full, along with a substantial selection of poems and prose poems from his other col- lections and a complete translation of "Cat Town," a prose-poem "roman." These works wholly transformed the poetic landscape in Japan for all future generations. Award- winning translator Hiroaki Sato, called by Gary Snyder "the finest translator of contemporary Japanese poetry into American English," has also written an insightful introduction to this edition.

General

Imprint:	Nyrb Poets
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	November 2014
First published:	November 2014
Authors:	Hiroaki Sato • Sakutar o Hagiwara
Dimensions:	178 x 116 x 13mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	224
Edition:	Main
ISBN-13:	978-1-59017-775-4
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literature: texts > Poetry texts & anthologies > General
LSN:	1-59017-775-4
Barcode:	9781590177754

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