“I want people around the world to read Horie’s poems so that I can deliver her feelings to many people.” Two thousand copies were self-published. The book is priced at 500 yen ($4.50 ...
Diverse modernist poems, far from advertising a capacity to prefigure utopia or save society, understand themselves to be complicit in the unhappiness and injustice of an imperfect or fallen world.
To capture their experiences, Save the Children invited children from countries around the world to write short poems about COVID-19, life under lockdown, and how the pandemic has changed their lives.