New Haiku Poets Federation Prize - Haiku Works Division
Edition 14 (1986)
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2 peopleA haiku collection by Onifusa Sato. His poems carry the climate of Tohoku, labor, and the shadows after war, rising in language that combines roughness with lyric force.
Bearing Tohoku soil and memory, the haiku leave a dense tactile sense of life.
haikuTohokulaborpostwar memoryrootedness in place
A haiku collection by Setsuko Suzuki. Under a title that evokes summer seashores, it appears to condense seasonal touch, shadows of daily life, and a woman’s bodily sensibility into brief haiku form.
A haiku collection that draws summer light and the presence of the sea from within everyday life.
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