"Wasteland Poetry Collection" - Arachi Shishu

...6 volumes in total. Modernist poets who had experienced the war, such as Ayukawa, Kashima Shozo, Kitamura Taro, Kihara Koichi, Kuroda Saburo, Tamura Ryuichi, Nakagiri Masao, and Miyoshi Toyoichiro, gathered together in this magazine, which expanded and developed into the annual publication of the 8-volume Arechi Shishu (Poetry of the Arechi) (1951-58), and became the mainstream of postwar poetry as the so-called Arechi School movement. The significance of this movement lies in the fact that it started from a sense of crisis that saw the present day as a destructive "area" age, and through poetry, it sought ways to restore the wholeness and community of humanity while ideologically questioning the state of humanity. ...

*Some of the terminology referenced in "The Wasteland Poems" is listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

…全6冊。鮎川，加島祥造，北村太郎，木原孝一，黒田三郎，田村隆一，中桐雅夫，三好豊一郎ら戦争体験を経たモダニズムの詩人たちがこの雑誌に結集し，さらにその拡大発展として年刊《荒地詩集》全8冊(1951‐58)を刊行，いわゆる〈荒地派〉の運動として戦後詩の主流を形成する存在となった。この運動の意義は，現代を破滅的な〈荒地〉の時代と見る危機感から出発し，詩作を通じて人間のありかたを思想的に問い詰めつつ，人間の全体性と共同性を回復する道を探ったところにある。…

※「《荒地詩集》」について言及している用語解説の一部を掲載しています。

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