Description - Cat Town by Hiroaki Sato
Sakutaro Hagiwara is perhaps the most important modern Japanese poet, a bad-boy dissident who transformed Japanese poetry forever. In this selection of poems--all in beautiful new translations by the masterful Hiro Sato--the editors have included both of Hagiwara's most famous works, Howling at the Moon and The Blue Cat, in addition to other poems from the writer's oeuvre.
Modernist poet Sakutaro Hagiwara's first published book, Howling at the Moon, shattered conventional verse forms and transformed the poetic landscape of Japan. Two of its poems were removed on order of the Ministry of the Interior for "disturbing social customs." Along with the entirety of Howling, this volume includes all of Blue Cat, Hagiwara's second major collection, together with Cat Town, a prose-poem novella, and a substantial selection of verse from the rest of his books, giving readers the full breadth and depth of this pioneering poet's extraordinary work.
This English-only edition does not include the poems in their original language.
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