【1st Limited Edition Bonus / Includes Postcard】Poetry Collection "Nekoshiki Nyanical" (Published by Shichigatsudo)
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"Rin Narita articulates the aesthetic and logical architecture of language—through language itself." —Eiji Oguma, historical sociologist "This is feline language." —Recommended by the Inter-College Poetry Series 𓃠 Inter-College Poetry Series, Vol. 30: Nekoshiki Nyanical by Rin Narita. A work at the threshold of poetics and critical humanities, where translation is not merely the transfer of language, but an epistemic act: to reimagine the self through the other, and memory through imagination. Emerging from the practice of kikigaki (listening-writing), this collection stages writing as an ethical encounter—one that displaces authorship and invites reciprocal becoming. Featuring the title poem “Nekoshiki Nyanical” and sixteen additional pieces. First edition includes a limited-edition postcard featuring the painting "群像図" (Gunzōzu) by Japanese Nihonga artist Yuki Furueno, alongside a poetic excerpt. 〈Keywords〉 kikigaki / dialogical listening / fieldwork poetics / ethics of textual presence / deconstructive lyricism / furigana poetics / collaborative authorship / bilingual composition / decolonial translation / Uyghur poetic resistance / oral imagination / contemporary verse / poetic methodology / embodied cognition / animacy of objects and lifeforms * Special edition includes postcard. Price reflects limited bundle.
■ Included Works
Part I: Nekoshiki — Nyanical - Nekoshiki Nyanical - Myagu - To - The Fua Verse: Undersea Shrine and the Pillars’ Tale - Vertical: Faith in the Moon - The Ascension of K, or K's Drowning (Remix) (a tripartite reassemblage of "The Ascension of K, or K's Drowning" / "It’s Hard for You to Walk on This Planet" / "Vertical: Faith in the Moon") - Noborito 19:17 — At 24:37 on Planet Earth, Vol.1 - Rapid Train from JR Shinjuku Station, 22:58 — Vol.5 - Loop Route 8 at 2:49 — Vol.6 - Shibuya 23:14 — Vol.7 - Lifeline from the Flame-Koku ——Subterranean Currents of Salvation (Based on a Uyghur folk song: Östeng Naxshisi) ▷ Part I compiles eleven of Narita Rin’s representative poetic works. These are textual acts of aesthetic inquiry, often situated at the intersection of lyric, field method, and affective cartography. Part II: Becoming Listening-Writing, Possessive Poetry - K is a Part of K — feat. F - KiraKira Glittering Bone Star — feat. Yumeno Hadari - Myuu — feat. Shimizu Ryoichiro - Fujiyoshida, Shiraito Falls — feat. Pueblo - Nagisa at the White End of the Heaven — feat. Nagisa - The Disappearance of Minami Hanashiro — feat. Early Times ▷ Part II is a suite of co-authored performative texts that emerge from Narita Rin’s three-year research practice at Keio University. Each piece originates in an embodied kikigaki session (a method of dialogical, situated listening-writing), conducted with a unique speaker who narrates their experience in real time. These texts do not merely transcribe speech; they instantiate a poetics of becoming. They perform the delicate ethics of writing-as-another and open space for shared authorship within the spectral ecology of memory, vulnerability, and linguistic resonance.
■ Publication Details
Title: Intercollege Poetry Series Vol. 30 — Nyanical Author: Rin Narita Cover Art: Yuuki Koyano (https://www.koyano-yuuki.com/) Publication Date: January 30, 2025 Price: ¥1000 (BOOTH price) Format: Paperback (Shiroku-ban size, softcover, folded fore edge) Publisher: Seiko Goto Publishing House: Shichigatsudo (https://www.shichigatsudo.co.jp/info.php?category=publication&id=nekoshiki_Nyanical) Printing: Taiyo Art Printing Binding: Aizumi Bookbindery ISBN: 978-4-87944-600-8 C009
■ Limited Edition Bonus: Postcard (First Release)
A special postcard featuring the artwork of Japanese painter Yuuki Koyano and poetry by Rin Narita. The front side presents “Gunzōzu” (群像図) by Yuuki Koyano alongside an excerpt from Nyanical by Rin Narita. The reverse side features a separate excerpt from Nyanical, delicately printed in silver lettering.
NOTE
* This book is written entirely in Japanese. * It is the same edition as the Japanese version listed on this page. Please be aware before purchasing.