Details

Subject(s)

• Hirato, Renkichi—Translations into English [Browse]
• Japanese poetry—20th century—Translations into English [Browse]
• Futurism (Literary movement)—Japan [Browse]
• Japanese poetry—20th century [Browse]

Translator

Sugita, Sho [Browse]

Writer of introduction

Sugita, Sho [Browse]

Writer of afterword

Selland, Eric [Browse]

Library of Congress genre(s)

• Poetry [Browse]

Series

• Lost literature series ; #15. [More in this series]
• Lost literature series ; #15 [More in this series]

Summary note

"Once called "the Marinetti of Japan" by David Burliuk, Hirato Renkichi produced a unique brand of Futurism from the late 1910s and early 1920s through poetry, criticism, and guerrilla performance. Contributing to the earliest productions of Japanese avant-garde poetry, his aggressive experimentation with speed, spatialization, and performability would later influence what became a lively community of Dadaist and Surrealist writers in pre-war Japan.Spiral Staircase is the first definitive volume of Renkichi's poems to appear in English. With an introduction by Sho Sugita and an afterword by Eric Selland."--Publisher's website (viewed 01/09/2017).

Notes

• Poems.
• "Cover art by Pareesa Pourian. Design by Katherine Bogden & Doormouse. Typeset in Avenir & Futura. Printed & bound by McNaughton & Gunn, Saline, Michigan. Covers printed letterpress at Ugly Duckling Presse in Brooklyn, New York. The editors would like to thank Lee Norton, Karen Ornat, and Emma Wipperman for their invaluable assistance. The publisher would like to acknowledge the support of the National Endowment for the Arts and the New York State Council on the Arts."--Colophon (page 2).

Language note

Translated from the Japanese.

ISBN

• 9781937027667
• 193702766X

OCLC

968686662

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