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Book · 2001

土間の四十八滝

Across twenty-two poems, Machida Kō's collection uses abrasive humor, restless voices, and images of the dead intruding on everyday life to push Japanese free verse toward a volatile, theatrical energy.

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  • The poetry collection that inspired me to write poetry as poetry. Irresistible. It gives me the shivers.
    因子 on Booklog
  • I will surely reread this over and over again. Stripped bare, marching relentlessly onward.
    三柴湯之助 on Booklog
  • Reread. After reading several of his works, I learned he also had a poetry collection and picked this up. Inferiority, anger, emptiness—a chunk of punk struggling within the city.
    かさね on Booklog

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