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5.0
Although there are a number of poems I felt were clunky in this collection, and the introduction, too, didn't read as smoothly as I thought it might – certainly not as smoothly as other introductions to the life and work of foreign poets and novelists I've read – these poems are excellent on more than enough occasions to highly recommend. Tanikawa's focus throughout on language, silence, and the cosmos, as well as his consistent use of a persona for his poetry, were especially interesting to me.
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