Results for "Hagiwara, Sakutaro"

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 w... Read More about Principles of Poetry (Shi No Genri) (Cornell East Asia)

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 w... Read More about Principles of Poetry (Shi No Genri) (Cornell East Asia)

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, ... Read More about Cat Town (NYRB Poets)

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 phan... Read More about The Iceland

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  ... Read More about Poetry Pamphlets 13-16 (New Directions Poetry Pamphlets)