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Contemporary Poetry Hanatsubaki Award げんだいしはなつばきしょう

Edition 30 (2012)

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Winners

1 people
Shuri Kido きど あかり award

A sequence of prose poems that gathers language and memory from nameless fragments washed ashore on the coast of Kamakura. Through the impersonal presence of driftage, it unfolds reflections on the shore, time, life, and the beginning of the world, accompanied by photographs.

From nameless fragments at the water's edge, impersonal voices begin to spill out.

156 pages
prose poetryshorelinedriftagetimeimpersonality