Contemporary Poetry Hanatsubaki Award げんだいしはなつばきしょう
Edition 16 (1998)
Literary awardPoetry collectionContemporary poetry
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1 peopleBy the River is a poetry collection by poet and translator Chimako Tada. Beginning with riverside landscapes, it contemplates life and death, memory, and the course of language, building a distinctive poetic world where intellect and sensuality meet through mythic and dreamlike images.
A poetry collection that follows memory, the dead, and the distant course of language from the edge of a river.
125 pages
rivers and currentslife and deathmemorymythic imaginationthe poet and language