[Portland, Oregon]

Sho Sugita reads Hirato Renkichi
January 31, 2017, 7:00 pm
at Passages Bookshop

Join us for the Portland launch of Spiral Staircase, the collected poems of Hirato Renkichi, just out from Ugly Duckling Presse. Translator Sho Sugita will read from the first definitive volume in English of the work of this pioneer of the Japanese avant-garde.• • • Hirato Renkichi (1893-1922) “produced a unique brand of Futurism in the late 1910s and early 1920s through poetry, criticism, and guerilla performance,” influencing later Dadaist and Surrealist writers in Japan prior to WWII.