The Collected Poems of Chika Sagawa

**Winner of the PEN Award for Poetry in Translation - The electrifying collected works of "one of the most innovative and prominent avant-garde poets in early twentieth-century Japan" ( *The New Yorker* ).**

**Translated by and with an introduction by Sawako Nakayasu**

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.

**The Modern Library Torchbearers series features women who wrote on their own terms, with boldness, creativity, and a spirit of resistance.**

AMERICAN INDIAN STORIES - THE AWAKENING - THE CUSTOM OF THE COUNTRY - THE HEADS OF CERBERUS - LADY AUDLEY'S SECRET - LOVE, ANGER, MADNESS - PASSING - THE RETURN OF THE SOLDIER - THERE IS CONFUSION - THE TRANSFORMATION OF PHILIP JETTAN - VILLETTE