I Wanted to Be Loved by No One Today / Shuntaro Tanikawa, Daiji Okano, Tatsuya Kinoshita [Reading Record] Going to Meet the Margins of Words—A Book to Savor Linked Poetry and Post-Game Analysis
When I first read a tanka collection, I was surprised that there were "no explanations."
There is no correct answer written about what kind of meaning was put into them.
Even so, sometimes I encounter poems that perfectly nestle into my heart.
I remember being quietly happy about those moments.
This book, "I Wanted to Be Loved by No One Today," contains "linked poetry" by poet Shuntaro Tanikawa and two tanka poets, as well as a "post-game analysis" where they look back while exchanging words.
How are poems and tanka born?
It is a book where you can gently touch the warmth and conflict of the process of spinning words.
Going to meet the margins of words
—Reading "I Wanted to Be Loved by No One Today"
When I first read a tanka collection, there was something that surprised me.
The poems were lined up without any explanation.
Even if there is an afterword, there is no commentary on what meaning is contained within.
I thought, "Maybe there's a little hint at the end," but there wasn't even that.
I see, this is the world of tanka.
It is free, but a world entrusted to the reader.
There are poems whose meaning enters smoothly, and poems that I don't understand no matter how much I think about them.
But because of that, the exhilaration when I encounter a poem that fits my own senses perfectly is amazing—
"Oh, that happens," "I get it, I get it," and my heart trembles deep inside.
I think that is the wonderful thing about tanka.
A "post-game analysis" where poets and tanka poets exchange words
"I Wanted to Be Loved by No One Today" is a book of "linked poetry" by poet Shuntaro Tanikawa and tanka poets Daiji Okano and Tatsuya Kinoshita.
The trajectory of how poems and tanka are born while overlapping alternately.
And this book includes a part called "post-game analysis" where the three look back on their works.
This "post-game analysis" is really interesting.
How the works connected, where they got stuck, and how they rewrote them. The production process told from the author's perspective exudes the pain and joy of spinning words, and it is somehow very human.
It looks like it can be read lightly, but in reality, they were worried, lost, and yet still trying to deliver it.
I felt deeply that this is how words are born.
There are seeds of tanka in everyday life
I myself have recently started composing tanka.
I can't compose them well, but the number of situations where I think "I might be able to turn this moment into a poem" has increased.
I have started to scoop up scenery and words that suddenly pierced my heart in daily life.
Just by doing that, I feel like the way I see the world has changed a little.
After reading this book,my head was full of words.
Round and round, flickering, thud.
I felt like I had peeked a little into the heads of the poets and tanka poets, and I remembered the joy of touching words once again.
That these three met and exchanged words in the form of linked poetry.
That the record is gathered into one book like this and is in my hands.
I am happy and grateful for that.
It was a book I was glad to read and glad to have encountered.
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A book of creation and conversation by three people who are like teacher and student, or classmates. Includes "linked poetry" and "post-game analysis" by a national poet and up-and-coming tanka poets. Reading each other and misreading, emotion and technique, laughter and thrills intersect.
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