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ロンゲラップの海

Japan Poetry, Tanka and Haiku Grand Prize

ロンゲラップの海

Itsuko Ishikawa

The Sea of Rongelap is a poetry collection facing the memory of radiation exposure and the sea around Rongelap Atoll in the Marshall Islands. It gives language to the shadow of nuclear testing not as a distant event but as pain remaining in the sea and human bodies.

poetrynuclear testingRongelapseamemory

Work Information

A work that listens to the nuclear wounds left in the sea as poetic voices.

The Sea of Rongelap looks at the sea, islands, and memories wounded by nuclear testing. Documentary force and lyricism overlap, linking events in a distant ocean to present ethical imagination.

Review Summaries

  • The collection has an urgency in transforming a social subject into poetic language, and its quiet voice leaves a strong impression of historical pain.

Book Information

Publisher
花神社
Published
2011-09-01
Pages
161 pages
Language
日本語
ISBN-13
9784760219438
ISBN-10
4760219439
Price
924 JPY
Category
本/文学・評論

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