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Contemporary Poet Award げんだいしじんしょう

Edition 35 (2017)

Poetry

Winners

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A poetry collection in which Minoru Nakamura, after many decades of writing poems, reflects on the nature and expressions of language through the sonnet form. It distills the humility and fear of people who stumble over words, are misled by them, and still try to approach them.

A collection that approaches language with humility precisely because it knows language can be frightening.

86 pages
languagesonnetspoetic practicelate-life reflection