Contemporary Tanka Newcomer Award
無言歌: 歌集 (塔21世紀叢書 第57篇)
Misako Kono's first tanka collection. It gathers bodily sensation, intimate distance, and emotions moving within silence in a soft tone that makes careful use of hiragana.
Work Information
A collection that turns breath and the weight of a hand, things not fully made into words, into the sound of tanka.
Silent Song is Misako Kono's tanka collection, published by Sunagoya Shobo in 2004. It brings intimate scenes, minute bodily sensations, and emotions inside silence into being through restrained language.
Review Summaries
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The poems are appreciated for the sensuality born from bodily closeness and for the openness that lets each reader imagine the scene differently. The measured syllables and choices of script convey emotional movement naturally.
Book Information
- Publisher
- 砂子屋書房
- Published
- 2004-08-01
- Pages
- 195 pages
- Language
- 日本語
- ISBN-13
- 9784790407898
- ISBN-10
- 4790407896
- Price
- 3300 JPY
- Category
- 本/文学・評論
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