Voice in the Dark

Ryoko Sekiguchi, a Japanese poet and French essayist, author of the books "Nagori" and "961 Hours in Beirut" translated into Russian, always writes about how time is arranged and how we "negotiate" with it, remembering, forgetting, savoring moments and not noticing the passing years, regardless of the topic of her works — Japanese notions of seasonal change, the life of a multifaceted and multivocal Levantine city, the tragedy in Fukushima, etc. In this short text, combining features of diary entries, prose poetry, and philosophical essays, the human voice paradoxically becomes the manifestor of time, always existing in the present.