Michiyo Kawano
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«Pensées et Matérialisations»（panta rhei）
«Flower, Steam and Distance» (panta rhei)
«The Gleam of Time» （Tokyo Publishing House）
panta rhei series
«Flower (Tissue of Dream Nearing to Stillness»（Wakabayashi Studio）
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book list
«l’estoro armonico»(panta rhei, 2023)
«Pensées et Matérialisations» (panta rhei, 2022)
«Isolated Existence»panta rhei series (2018)
«The Kite» panta rhei series (2017)
«The Formation of Poetry History» (panta rhei series 2017)
«The Gleam of Time» (Tokyo Publishing House 2012)
«Flower, Steam and Distance» (panta rhei, 2009)
Isamu Wakabayashi+Michiyo Kawano «Flower (Tissue of Dream Nearing to Stillness» limited edition of 7 copies Wakabayashi Studio 1998/ask panta rhei for buying the last one
Isamu Wakabayashi+Michiyo Kawano «Flower (Tissue of Dream Nearing to Stillness» popular edition (Gallery Ikeda Bijutsu 2000, out of print)
«spira mirabilis» (private edition=25, Shoshi Yamada popular edition=225, 1992, out of print)
«Copperplate Scenery» (Shoki-shorin 1977, out of print)
Anthology (Ryuichi Tamura and others)«New Century of Poetry——24 contemporary poets» (Shinchosha)
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BOOK ARCHIT purchase site
«Pensées et Matérialisations»（panta rhei）
«Flower, Steam and Distance»（panta rhei 2009）
«The Gleam of Time» crystal cage (Tokyo Publishing House 2012）
«The Formation of Poetry History» panta rhei series
«Isolated Existence» panta rhei series
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Michiyo Kawano was born in Fukuoka, Japan. Producing finely honed poems fusing metaphysical and musical qualities, her poetry works have a perilous degree of perfection.
The first poetry collection «Copperplate Scenery» (1977) received praise from Japanese poets and critics, and in 1980’s the series of poems «Reminiscence and This Mortal Frame» was highly praised by Tsuguo Ando a great poet. She has stood at a decisive distance from the poetic world of Japan, which is focused on the ironic modernity of following current trends without seeking the essence of poetry in the pursuit of rhyme and rhetoric. A prize was decided to be given to «spira mirabilis» (1992) including this series of works, but she declined it.
A great Japanese sculptor Isamu Wakabayashi persuaded her to make an artist’s book combining his copperplate prints and her poems. Then the limited edition of 7 copies of «Flower (Tissue of Dream Nearing to Stillness» was published in 1998.(A popular edition was later published, but is now out of print.) The exhibition was held at Gallery Ikeda Bijutsu Tokyo in 2000. She has published more poetry collection «Flower, Steam and Distance» (panta rhei) in 2009 (Yomiuri Literary Award). This book was written with the motif of Wakabayashi’s sculptures after the death of him, creating a new poetic dimension between plastic arts and verbal arts. The prose work «The Gleam of Time» (2012) is the short essays observing small lives at her window but by her lucid eyes and extremely subtle and precise Japanese prose it becomes a poetic book of Revelation.
Since 2017, she has launched the panta rhei series of essays and critiques in booklets, and is currently publishing «The Formation of Poetry History», «The Kite» and «Isolated Existence».
In 2022, a collection of poems «Pensées et Matérialisations» was published by panta rhei.
In 2023, a collection of poems «l’estro armonico» was published by panta rhei.
河野道代
『花・蒸気・隔たり』（panta rhei）
『時の光』（Tokyo Publishing House）
panta rhei 叢書
『花（静止しつつある夢の組織』（若林スタジオ）
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著書
随筆集『時の光』crystal cage 叢書（東京パブリッシングハウス 2012）
若林奮との詩画集・普及版『花（静止しつつある夢の組織』（ギャラリー池田美術刊 2000 絶版）
若林奮との詩画集『花（静止しつつある夢の組織』（限定7部 若林スタジオ刊 1998 /panta rhei 取扱い 1部残 ask）
詩集『spira mirabilis』（私家版＝25部 普及版=書肆山田刊 1993 絶版）
詩集『銅版風景』（書紀書林刊 1977 絶版）
アンソロジー（田村隆一ほか）『詩の新世紀——24人の現代詩人による』（新潮社刊）
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河野道代（かわのみちよ）
その詩は、メタフィジックと音楽美と形象美とをひとつに結晶化させ、現代日本語の詩には稀有の「危険な完成度」を獲得している。1986年の「回想と現身 そのほか」という詩群（詩集『spira mirabilis』に収録）は、安東次男により絶讃された。彫刻家・若林奮の慫慂により 詩画集『花 （静止しつつある夢の組織』を共同制作して7部刊行。若林歿後にもその美術作品と対峙した詩集『花・蒸気・隔たり』で、言語と形象のよじれという未踏の領域を開く。