Abstract

Recommended by translator Sachiko Kishimoto! An essay by a young female poet that has become a hot topic after being serialized online has finally been published as a book. The high school girl who was hailed as ``precocious'' and ``geniuses'' are now nowhere to be found. What was left behind was a dull woman who was timid and prone to dreaming. Will I be able to face reality even though I've been doing all I can? A collection of essays by the author, who won the Nakahara Chuya Prize at the age of 18, in which he attempts to break away from being a JK poet. When it was serialized, there was a lot of talk about ``If I wasn't a poet, would I have become a prostitute?'', this is the poet's experience of ``going out on the town'' as she pleases, from his New Year's visit to the local greengrocer's shop, from overseas to a striptease theater. This is the definitive edition with two newly written essays added to the web series.

Author’s Information

A poet. Born in Hokkaido in 1991, lives in Tokyo. She began submitting poems to magazines in junior high school, and won the Contemporary Poetry Techo Award at the age of 16. Her first collection of poems, ``An Inappropriate Me in an Appropriate World'' (Shichosha Publishing), published when she was in her third year of high school, won the Chuya Nakahara Award and the Yutaka Maruyama Memorial Contemporary Poetry Award at the age of 18. While a student at Waseda University's Faculty of Education, she published her second collection of poems, ``Deeper than the Roof'' (Shichosha). In 2016, she published her first essay collection, “Baptism Diary” (Poplar Publishing), and her third poetry collection, “Our Cat” (Nanaroku Publishing). She is active in a wide range of activities, including writing lyrics for the NHK National School Music Competition, reading poems, and teaching poetry writing courses. is a pen name I came up with to post my poems when I was 14 years old. ◎Official website → http://fuzukiyumi.com