ネクタリン
A sequence of thirty tanka poems by Spica Nakai. Watching a mother whose cognition is changing, it captures family time and the freedom of everyday life in gentle language. Rather than over-explaining pain, the poems face reality flexibly through shifts in perspective.
Work Information
Thirty tanka poems that observe change within a family and find the outline of freedom even in pain.
Sky and Window is Spica Nakai's thirty-poem sequence that received the 33rd Kadan Award. Later included in her first tanka collection Nectarine, it portrays family memory and the texture of lived experience in language that is both urgent and light.
Review Summaries
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The sequence is received as addressing family difficulty without becoming excessively heavy, leaving a strong impression through its flexible speaking voice. Its shifts of verbal perspective are valued.
Book Information
- Publisher
- 本阿弥書店
- Published
- 2023-07-31
- Pages
- 172 pages
- Size
- 18.8 x 12.8 x 1.3 cm
- ISBN-13
- 9784776816430
- ISBN-10
- 4776816431
- Price
- 990 JPY
- Category
- 本/文学・評論/評論・文学研究
第33回歌壇賞受賞者の第1歌集。栞・東直子 江戸雪 山下洋。