2025-10-12 I've been following his work for the past month. There is the feel of treating poetry as something that has the materiality of printed matter on paper, and by extension the work of photo poetry that reminds us that poetry is not necessarily written only in letters and words. The focus of his creative work fits well with my own tastes; I myself was born the day after Kitasono's death. If there is a baton of the ages, I would like to pass it on.