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Cat Town
Sakutaro Hagiwara, Hiroaki Sato
New York Review Books · Paperback · November 11, 2014
Reading lane: Japanese Poetry
Modernist poet Sakutarō Hagiwara’s first published book, Howling at the Moon , shattered conventional verse forms and transformed the poetic landscape of Japan.
At a Glance
Why This Clicks
Verse Without Manners
A wide-ranging English-only gathering of Hagiwara’s poems, including work once censored for social disruption.
Come here for
- Modernist poetry that broke with conventional verse.
- Verse, a prose-poem novella, and the breadth of a poet’s collections.
Expect
- Three named works, plus a substantial selection from Hagiwara’s other books.
- An English-only edition, without the poems in their original language.
Book Details
- Authors
- Sakutaro Hagiwara, Hiroaki Sato
- Publisher
- New York Review Books
- Published
- November 11, 2014
- Format
- Paperback
- Theme
- Japanese Poetry · Japanese Literary Collections
- Reading lane
- Japanese Poetry
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Publisher Categories
Japanese Literary Collections
Japanese Poetry
Poetry About Death
About This Book
Modernist poet Sakutarō 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 h...
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