Cat Town
New York Review Books · Paperback · November 11, 2014
Modernist poet Sakutarō Hagiwara’s first published book, Howling at the Moon, shattered conventional verse forms and transformed the poetic landscape of Japan.
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- Who it’s for
- A wide-ranging English-only gathering of Hagiwara’s poems, including work once censored for social disruption.
- Themes
- Modernist poetry, Experimental verse
- Genres
- Japanese Poetry, Japanese Literary Collections, Nature Poetry
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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.”
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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.
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.
Where it sits
| Japanese Poetry | 95% |
|---|---|
| Nature Poetry | 50% |
| Japanese Literary Collections | 39% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- Japanese Literary Collections
- Japanese Poetry
- Poetry About Death
- Authors
- Sakutaro Hagiwara, Hiroaki Sato
- Publisher
- New York Review Books
- Published
- November 11, 2014
- Format
- Paperback
- Theme
- Modernist poetry · Experimental verse
- Reading lane
- Japanese Literary Collections