Kadan Award かだんしょう
Edition 23 (2012)
Tanka
Winners
1 peopleNaoko Hiraoka's sequence Hikari to, Hikari no Todoku Saki won the twenty-third Kadan Award. It explores the space between visible reality and unseen regions, raising sensations of the body, death, and living from within language itself.
A sequence that reaches beyond the outline of reality and tries to send language toward the unseen.
144 pages
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