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Lot n° 208

Ôoka Makoto / Garanjoud Claude / Palmé Domini...

In the ocean of silence. Published in Montélimar, by Voix d' Encre, in 1998. In a in4 format, with a bound cover. Complete in 80 pages and containing 25 reproductions of Claude Garanjoud's ink drawings. Original edition, enriched with a shipment from the author Makoto Ôoka "A Pierre Lecuire" (who was a French poet and publisher). The first anthology in France of a major voice in contemporary Japanese poetry, which recreates in today's spoken Japanese the refinement, simplicity and elegance of classical Japanese, according to its English translator Janine Beichman. Opposite each poem is a spider drawing, as openwork as lace, by the painter Claude Garanjoud. A well-preserved copy. Makoto Ōoka (大岡 信, Ōoka Makoto?), born February 16, 1931 in Mishima, Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan and died April 5, 20171, is a Japanese poet and literary critic. (wikipedia)