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暮しの降霊

Shiika Bungakukan Prize

暮しの降霊

Takanori Morimoto

A constructed poetry collection that lets memory and the presence of ghosts surface through fragmented, defamiliarized language.

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Work Information

An experimental collection crystallized from five years of writing.

A Shichosha poetry collection published in October 2020. Through fragmentary sequences, it rearranges the boundaries between the everyday and the uncanny, memory and ghosts.

Review Summaries

  • The selection note praises the unease at the origin of the language and the structure that emerges from it.

Book Information

Publisher
思潮社
Published
2020-11-16
Pages
96 pages
Language
日本語
Size
14.2 x 1.2 x 21.6 cm
ISBN-13
9784783737292
ISBN-10
4783737290
Price
2640 JPY
Category
本/文学・評論/詩歌/詩集/現代詩

きみは咲う。親はいま骨離れが悪いと。指が戦ぐのはそのせいでなく、ぼくも囮の信条に背いて意味もなく笑うことがある。(「豚の首」) 待望の第2詩集 文反故による貼雑ぜ自伝。骨のない幽霊。角材で閂をして眠る姉妹。でこっぱちの毛虫―。人から遠く離れた場所で、人との共棲をもはや無用とした言葉同士は、どうし て人の想い出を騙りえるだろうか。 『零余子回報』から5年を懸けて設えられた、現代詩の巣穴。 装幀=水戸部功

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