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 Dreams are severed fruit Auburn pears have fallen in the field Parsley blooms on the plate Sometimes the leghorn appears to have six toes I crack an egg and the moon comes out An important and daringly experimental voice in Tokyo’s avant-ga