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Loading... Cat Town (NYRB Poets) (edition 2014)by Sakutaro Hagiwara (Author), Hiroaki Sato (Editor), Hiroaki Sato (Translator)
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Sakutaro 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 odisturbing social customs.o 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 omodern malaise.o Hagiwara expanded on oan invalid'so 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 othe finest translator of contemporary Japanese poetry into American English,o has also written an insightful introduction to this edition. No library descriptions found. |
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Google Books — Loading... GenresMelvil Decimal System (DDC)895.61Literature Literature of other languages Asian (east and south east) languages Japanese Japanese poetryLC ClassificationRatingAverage:
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