Child of the Sun

A deserted building trembles in winter light. A lonely speaker remembers a homeland beyond his reach. Then another voice emerges: restless, defiant and determined to become a child of the sun.

In his first poetry collection, Fukushi Kōjirō moves from delicate images of silence and decay toward expansive songs of labor, love and spiritual renewal. His preface describes that change through the poems themselves, recalling the encouragement of friends and the discovery of a voice that could sustain him through hardship.

The complete collection brings together intimate memories, seafaring visions, invocations of sunlight and provocative addresses to women, workers and Japan’s writers. Literary epigraphs and references connect its experiments to Poe, Ibsen, Verhaeren and other European authors, while its streets, rooms and landscapes remain vividly particular.