Doubled Flowering: From the Notebooks of Araki Yasusada
...the most controversial poetry book since Allen Ginsberg'sHowl... [T]he pages ofDoubled Floweringare stunning as poems and failures as the historical documents they turn out not to be. They are alternately funny, ironic, irreverent, bitter and passionate. I do not think they add up to a kind of joke ... by seducing North American readers with their Orientalist exoticism, by fooling us into liking them for all the wrong reasons or by taking advantage of our desire for Western cliches of Japanese and Chinese writing.   --The Nation, Forrest Gander--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.