Books by Sakutaro Hagiwara
Cat Town (NYRB Poets)
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 his books, giving readers the full breadth and depth of this pioneering poet's extraordinary work.
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The Iceland (New Directions Poetry Pamphlet)
by Hiroaki Sato, Sakutaro Hagiwara
Proudly part of the New Directions Poetry Pamphlets, a mesmerizing collection by a Japanese forerunner of Modernist poetry Hagiwara writes in the preface: “The author’s past life was that of a disconsolate iceberg that drifts and flows in the extreme regions of the northern seas. Looking at the phantom-like auroras from various spots of the iceberg, he yearned, suffered, rejoiced, sorrowed, at times getting angry with himself, as he wandered on vainly with the tides…. Above his heart were always the disconsolate clouded skies of the extreme regions, the soul-ripping winds of the Iceland howling, screaming. He wrote all that painful life and the diary of a real person in these poems.”
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Poetry Pamphlets 13-16 (New Directions Poetry Pamphlets)
by Anne Carson, Osip Mandelshtam, Li Shangyin, Sakutaro Hagiwara
New Directions Poetry Pamphlets 13-16
A four-pack of our Spring 2014 Poetry Pamphlets, featuring:
The Albertine Workout, by Anne Carson
Derangements of my Contemporaries, by Li Shangyin
The Iceland, by Sakutaro Hagiwara
The Poems of Osip Mandelstam
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