Happy N American release day to Chuya Nakahara's Angel at the Earth's Extreme (trans Jeffrey Angles). "Nakahara Chuya lived only to age thirty yet ranks among the finest of Japanese poets, evoking in his work the alienation, ennui, and romantic melancholy of a changing world."
Angel at the Earth's Extreme: Collected PoemsThe intensely confessional work of Japan’s most famous modernist poet, considered the Japanese Rimbaud, whose poems have inspired cultlike devotion—especially among fans of the hit anime show Bungo St...bookshop.org