"Indeed, modern critics conscious of his proven genius show an understandable reluctance to say flatly whether some of the curious words in his poetry are deliberate new-coinings or merely results of his lack of formal education." --Graeme Wilson, translator's introduction to Face at the Bottom of the World


So you are thinking of becoming a Babarist?


"Hagiwara himself explained his especial liking for beer as permitting long arguments about poetry as one proceeded slowly toward incoherence." --ibid

K. S.