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The collected poems of Chika Sagawa
Chika Sagawa
Translated from Japanese by Sawako Nakayasu
The collected poems of Chika Sagawa, translated by Sawako Nakayasu, brings a startling Japanese modernist voice into English with the force of rediscovery. Sagawa’s poems are sharp, compressed, urban, strange, and often associated with the speed and fracture of early twentieth-century modernity. As a collected volume, the book matters not only as a reading experience but as a restoration of scale: English-language readers can encounter the shape of a brief, intense poetic career rather than a scattering of isolated pieces. Nakayasu’s translation is crucial, carrying both the lucidity and dislocation of Sagawa’s imagery. I would read this book for its electricity. The poems feel like glass, city light, weather, and nerves arranged into lyric form. They still seem ahead of us.
- Published
- 2015
- Publisher
- Canarium
- Language
- Japanese
- Country
- Japan
- ISBN
- 9780984947164