Face at the Bottom of the World and Other Poems (UNESCO Collection of Representative Works: Japanese Series) (English and Japanese Edition)

Politics & Social Sciences

Hagiwara, Sakutaro

Social Sciences

Tuttle Pub

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.”

The Iceland (New Directions Poetry Pamphlet)

Literature & Fiction

Sato, Hiroaki

History & Criticism

New Directions

New Directions Poetry Pamphlets 13-16A four-pack of our Spring 2014 Poetry Pamphlets, featuring:The Albertine Workout, by Anne CarsonDerangements of my Contemporaries, by Li ShangyinThe Iceland, by Sakutaro HagiwaraThe Poems of Osip Mandelstam 

Poetry Pamphlets 13-16 (New Directions Poetry Pamphlets)

Carson, Anne

MANDELSHTAM, OSIP

Shangyin, Li

Poetry

Howling at the moon: Poems of Hagiwara Sakutarō ; translated and with an introduction by Hiroaki Sato

Exclusive distributor, ISBS

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.

Cat Town (NYRB Poets)

Genre Fiction

NYRB Poets

Principles of Poetry (Cornell East Asia Series) (Cornell East Asia Series, 96)

This work comprises the first complete English translation of Shi no Genri, one of the most important attempts at a theory of literature written in the modern period. Hagiwara Sakutaro (1886–1942) was not only an original poet but also a perceptive and lonely literary critic. This book, in his own words, "is not a collection of fragmentary writings, but a thoroughly systematic and organized discourse" on poetry and other related arts. He sees the future of Japanese poetry as being tied to the characteristics of Japanese language, and even to the destiny of Japan.

Cornell East Asia Series

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