Spiral staircase
Renkichi Hirato (Author), Sho Sugita (Translator, Writer of introduction), Eric Selland, Pareesa Pourian, Katherine Bogden (Book designer), Ugly Duckling Presse (Publisher), McNaughton & Gunn (Printer)
"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)
Print Book, English, 2017
First edition
Ugly Duckling Presse, Brooklyn, New York, 2017