Spiral Staircase: Collected Poems of Hirato Renkichi

First Edition, 2017. 208 pages.

Book measures 5.25 x 8 inches. Translated by Sho Sugata, with an introduction by Sho Sugita and an afterword by Eric Selland. Hirato Renkichi created a unique brand of Futurism from the late 1910s to the 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.

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