Still meandering through this one, savoring a few poems at a time.
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From the Middle Country | 
Still meandering through this one, savoring a few poems at a time.
#poetry
I have a thousand reads in progress right now, but this one was singing its siren song from the top of the stack, and I‘m not sorry I gave in. 😁 Noriko Tanaka is one of those rare poets who makes me WANT to slow down and savor every line and image. (I know I‘m probably always supposed to do that, but realistically, I read fast, often even with poetry. 😅)
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Today‘s new arrival, a thin little book of tanka with a back blurb that latched onto my mythic sensibilities:
“There is a world beyond the blue sky we only catch glimpses of [...]. Drawn from the five different ‘realms‘ of the sea, the middle country, the underworld, the forests and the country of old, Noriko Tanaka‘s third collection [...] is born of that human longing to somehow explore this unknowable space.”
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