Book record
Cat Town
Sakutaro Hagiwara
Translated from Japanese by Hiroaki Sato
Cat Town by Sakutaro Hagiwara, translated from Japanese by Hiroaki Sato and published by New York Review of Books, is a book rooted in Japan. Hagiwara’s Cat Town, translated by Hiroaki Sato, sounds like a portal into one of poetry’s best modes: urban strangeness seen with animal attention. The title is playful, but not necessarily cute. Cats bring secrecy, night movement, indifference, hunger, elegance, and the slightly uncanny feeling that the city has been watching us back. I would read this book for atmosphere and estrangement, for the way modern Japanese poetry can turn a town into a dream with claws.
- Publisher
- New York Review of Books
- Language
- Japanese
- Country
- Japan