This looks like a very exciting book. The review is by Eric Selland, and
can be found at the address below. Here is  the first paragraph-- the full
text is about three pages long. Thanks to Julie Johnson, who posted the
review on the Poetics List. Sylvester
 
 
 
The review can be found at Duration Press on-line:
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>Book Review: Shredding the Tapestry of Meaning : The Poetry and
>Poetics of Kitasono Katue (1901-1978) , by John Solt, Published by the
>Harvard University Asia Center and distributed by Harvard University
>Press, 1999, 395 pages, $49.50 cloth, ISBN 0-674-80733-2. (Available
>on amazon.com)
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>Occasionally a book arrives that changes everything. Less, perhaps, in
>presenting something totally new, than in revealing that which had
>remained hidden, or forgotten. John Solt's biography and extended
>literary analysis of the life's work of Kitasono Katue, a major
>practitioner of avant-garde poetic forms from the 1920s to the 1970s,
>does just that. First in offering up the newest in that short list of
>very rare full-length studies of a modern Japanese poet, and second in
>its having laid open a forgotten history of dynamic artistic and
>literary development, as well as cultural exchange. A history,
>moreover, which intersects with our own, as becomes evident in the
>lengthy chapter on Kitasono's many years of correspondence with Ezra
>Pound.