Never has a reading encounter felt so fully embodied—the vibration and motions and shapes of language inside, transforming the day, long after the book is closed.
We need more literature such as this. That is, we need literature that questions the way a body and its life unbecomes all that it seemed it was living for and towards.
Ryo Yamaguchi is the pastoral poet of the city, whose odes elevate the everyday and take the small seriously. He is a patient observer, and his voice has its own quiet urban ethics.
Carrie Olivia Adams