Cat Town

Download or read book Cat Town written by Sakutaro Hagiwara and published by New York Review of Books. This book was released on 2014-11-11 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.