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Hagiwara Sakutaro Award はぎわらさくたろうしょう

Edition 9 (2001)

Modern poetry

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Machida Kō award

A poetry collection by Machida Ko, unfolding a torrent of language that twists everyday speech into rhythm, humor, and pain through poems such as Saru Bonbon and Ore mo Kozo.

Beautiful and dangerous language pours from the earthen floor like a waterfall.

125 pages
contemporary poetrycolloquial languagehumor and pain