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語族

Ono Tozaburo Award

語族

Kaoru Soeda

A poetry collection that summons the shadows and ghostly traces left at the bottom of the postwar era as a swarm of lost words. It probes historical forgetting and the depths of the present through dense metaphor and a hard-edged voice.

contemporary poetrypostwar memoryghostslanguageforgetting

Work Information

It recalls voiceless presences drifting in the depths of the postwar era through poetry that feels like an apocrypha.

A poetry collection published by Shichosha and recorded as the Ono Tozaburo Award winner. Through titles such as crows, dead spirits, heroic spirits, and ghost islands, it builds a world that can be read as an apocrypha of postwar poetry.

Review Summaries

  • The collection stands out by refusing to close the postwar era as mere past, treating it instead as a shadow that remains in the present. Heavy diction and phantasmal sequences give the whole book a persistent unease.

Book Information

Publisher
思潮社
Published
2004-07-01
Pages
94 pages
Language
日本語
ISBN-13
9784783719342
ISBN-10
4783719349
Price
2491 JPY
Category
本/文学・評論

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