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句集 十年

Dakotsu Prize

句集 十年

Mutsuo Takahashi

Mutsuo Takahashi's ninth haiku collection. A poet who has crossed free verse, fixed-form poetry, fiction, and other genres gathers ten years of haiku, showing the richness of Japanese and new possibilities for lyricism against the depth of the classics.

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Work Information

Across ten years of haiku, the collection builds a new lyricism between classical depth and the present.

KADOKAWA presents Kushu Junen as the ninth haiku collection by a poet who crosses many genres, containing 609 haiku that sum up ten years of work. The book has 224 pages and ISBN 9784048764001.

Review Summaries

  • The collection is valued for placing weighty themes with apparent ease and for showing craft without strain. It is received as a work that transfers the poet's accumulated language into haiku form in a way difficult to imitate.

Book Information

Publisher
KADOKAWA
Published
2016-09-09
Pages
224 pages
Language
日本語
Size
13.5 x 1.7 x 19.5 cm
ISBN-13
9784048764001
ISBN-10
4048764004
Price
2970 JPY
Category
本/文学・評論/詩歌/詩集

自由詩、定型詩、小説などあらゆるジャンルを横断する詩人による、新しい叙情の可能性を切り拓く第9句集。10年間の集大成となる609句は、浩瀚な古典の世界を基調に日本語の豊かさ、深さを重層的に味わえる。

●高橋 睦郎:1937年、北九州に生まれ育つ。福岡教育大学国語国文学専攻。卒業後上京して広く学芸の諸先輩に学ぶ。少年時代から自由詩、短歌、俳句、散文を併行試作。小説、オペラ台本、新作能、新作狂言、新作浄瑠璃などを加えつつ現在に至る。詩集26冊、歌集8冊、句集8冊のほか著書多数。近年は古典文芸・伝統芸能の読み直しを続ける。俳句関連書に句集『花行』『賚』『遊行』『百枕』など。近著に詩集『何處へ』、歌集『待たな終末』、評論『詩心二千年――スサノヲから3・11へ』『和音羅読――詩人が読むラテン文学』など。

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