The Collected Poems of Chika Sagawa
By Chika Sagawa
Introduction by Sawako Nakayasu
Translated by by Sawako Nakayasu
176 pages
Paperback
Released August 11th, 2020
Published by Modern Library
ISBN:
9780593230015
An important and daringly experimental voice in Tokyo’s avant-garde poetry scene, Chika Sagawa broke with the gender-bound traditions of Japanese poetry. Growing up in isolated rural Japan, Sagawa moved to Tokyo at seventeen, and begin publishing her work at eighteen.She was immediately recognized as a leading light of the male-dominated Japanese literary scene; her work combines striking, unique imagery with Western influences. The results are short, sharp, surreal poems about human fragility and the beauty of nature from Japan’s first female Modernist poet.