H Award えいちししょう
Edition 11 (1961)
Contemporary poetryNewcomers award
Winners
1 peopleItsuko Ishikawa's second poetry collection. With words carrying anger and sorrow, it looks toward social wounds and abandoned people, marking her starting point as a socially engaged poet facing postwar reality.
It overlays the presence of wolves with the voices of 'us,' inscribing the wounds of postwar society into poetry.
141 pages
modern poetrysocial engagementpostwar lifeangerabandoned children