真珠川 Barroco
Chiyo Kitahara's poetry collection traces the wavering of the sensed world through river water, bodily perception, and fragile memory, using language with a baroque curve and density.
contemporary poetrywaterbodily perceptionmemorybaroque
Work Information
A poetry collection that draws near the presences hidden by water through the senses of body and language.
Shinjugawa Barroco is a collection published after several years since Kitahara's previous book. Its lines around flowing water, naming, and subtle presences create both hard-edged images and soft movement. The publisher identifies it as the winner of the H Prize.
Review Summaries
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The collection is introduced as poetry guided by what the mind and body perceive, and as a work that pursues the author's distinctive writing to a deeper point.
Book Information
- Publisher
- 思潮社
- Published
- 2016-08-12
- Pages
- 111 pages
- Language
- 日本語
- ISBN-13
- 9784783735274
- ISBN-10
- 4783735271
- Price
- 2640 JPY
- Category
- 本/文学・評論
「川べりに/毀された真珠が息をひそめ/かすかなところにすまいしているものらが/水を曲げている/名前を呼ぶとおどろいたように水はふりむく」(「Barroco」)。 心と身体の感知するところを、言葉に導かれるようにして。 『繭の家』から5年、独自の書記をつきつめた待望の新詩集。
Related Literary Awards
- H Award Edition 67 (2017) ・award