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Takami Jun Award たかみじゅんしょう

Edition 23 (1993)

Poetry

Winners

2 people
Seiji Tsutsumi つじい たかし award

Gunjo, Waga Mokushi is a poetry collection that sinks postwar society and personal memory into images of blue, building a long-breathed response to history. It keeps thought and sensation together while drawing voices out of silence.

From memories submerged in blue, an apocalypse of the age and the self begins to rise.

156 pages
postwar memoryresponse to historypoetry and thought
Toyomi Arai あらい とよみ award

Night Fruit is a poetry collection about the place of the dead and the rhythm of words returning to this world. Night, body, prayer, and landscape cross softly, holding anxiety and pain deep in sensation.

Like a song arriving from the depth of night, the presence of what has been lost returns to language.

the deadbodily sensationprayer and night