Sea of Trees:
Poetic Gateways to Aokigahara
Jordan A. Y. Smith, Yotsumoto Yasuhiro, Arai Takako, Osaki Sayaka
with Anishka Sharma and Barney Savage
Bilingual volume of poetry written inside Japan's legendary Aokigahara forest. Summer of 2018: four poets traveled with BBC Radio 4 to write poetry inside the forest sensationally known as the "suicide forest." What happens when we encounter the forest directly, write on and off its paths, and record under the trees?
(Tokyo: Excursions by ToPoJo, 2019)
An imprint series from Tokyo Poetry Journal.
ISBN 978-193360649-1
Orders can be placed through topojo.com
Contents (English)
On Atmosfears, by Anishka Sharma
Sea of Trees Poems
Arai Takako poems
More, More
Sacred Tree
The Spore People
Melon
Osaki Sayaka poems
The Entrance
The Exit
Jordan A. Y. Smith poems
Red Threads and Blue
Forest and Sign
Spine of Sun
Yotsumoto Yasuhiro poems
The Sea of Trees
In Exchange for a Short Poem: Making of the Jukai Poems
Aokigahara Reflections
Jordan A. Y. Smith Yotsumoto Yasuhiro Osaki Sayaka Arai Takako
A Note from Barney Savage
目次(日本語)
Atmosfearsについて
アニシュカ・シャーマ
〜 樹海の詩 〜
新井高子
もっと、もっと
神の木
胞子たち
メロン
大崎清夏
入口
出口
ジョーダン・A.Y.・スミス
赤い糸、青い糸
森と看板
太陽の背骨
四元康祐
樹海にて
メイキング・オブ・樹海ポエム
〜 旅を思い出して 〜
スミス ・ 四元 ・ 大崎 ・ 新井
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