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Chunichi Poetry Award ちゅうにちししょう

Edition 35 (1987)

Poetry

Winners

2 people
埋田昇二 うめだ しょうじ poetry prize

A poetry collection that approaches Mount Fuji through a sequence of white landscapes, shaping mountain, light, and language into tension. A vast subject is transformed into quiet, compressed poetic diction.

富獄白景 conveys a central aspect of 埋田昇二’s work.

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宇佐美孝二 うさみ こうじ second prize

A poetry collection that treats the feel of the sky as sound and follows minute tremors in language. The light breath of the title opens everyday space to fresh perception.

空の擬音が、ふ conveys a central aspect of 宇佐美孝二’s work.

118 pages
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