Kadan Award かだんしょう
Edition 2 (1991)
Tanka
Winners
1 peopleAn early sequence by Yoko Omura, using sharp metaphor and bent emotional motion to address family, the body, and unease toward love. It leads toward her first collection, Suna ga koborete, and is marked by intense self-scrutiny.
Behind the beautiful metaphors, unease toward the world quietly takes on an edge.
137 pages
tankafamilybodily perceptionself-scrutinynew writer prize