Rats' Nests: The Poetry of Hagiwara Sakutaro

This edition includes, in addition to several other enhancements, 470 selections from Hagiwara's poems, prose and fragments from his notebooks. Sakutaro remained an 'underground man' for us all, says Richard Luecke in the foreword to the first edition. 'bringing back from sojourns in hell new revelations and haunting music... It is a pleasure to commend a book that will convey "the father of modern Japanese poetry" to readers of English.'