On lost sheep / Shiro Murano, translated by Goro Takano by Shirō Murano and translated by Goro Takano

This is poetry from Japan.

On lost sheep / Shiro Murano, translated by Goro Takano by Shirō Murano translated by Goro Takano is published by Tinfish Press. This is a Book originally written in Japanese. This was published in 2017.0 and has the ISBN of 9.780998743844E12.

On Lost Sheep, by Shirō Murano and translated by Goro Takano, feels like a Japanese poetry collection built around attention that has wandered off from the flock. The title gives the reader a pastoral image, but also a spiritual one: the missing, the scattered, the ones who have slipped beyond ordinary keeping. I would read this book less as a tidy moral parable than as a series of lyric searches. Murano’s poems seem likely to matter most in their small turnings, where memory, nature, and human estrangement begin to touch. Takano’s translation gives English-language readers a chance to encounter a poet whose work may not arrive with a large institutional frame, but whose title alone suggests a quiet seriousness about care, loss, and returning.

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