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"Poems: Plaster Violets / Poeme Graphique" is a collection of works by Japanese poet and photographer Torii Ryozen. Torii Ryozen was a member of the VOU Club, a comprehensive art movement led by avant-garde poet Kitazono Katsue (1902-1978), which also published a journal. Like Kitazono, Torii's activities extended beyond poetry to include artistic expression through photography, and he is credited for the photography of dancer Hijikata Tatsumi's masterpiece "Smallpox Tale." This unique collection, part of the "Pippo Collection," a series of poetry collections published in the postwar 1950s, combines poems with photographic graphics. With a limited print run of only 250 copies, this precious photopoetry collection likely would not have been widely known had it not been introduced in various magazines by Ryuichi Kaneko (1948-2021), a leading postwar photography historian in Japan. This is a masterpiece that follows in the footsteps of Kitazono and others, with avant-garde, sculptural, and poetic images and texts that resonate with each other.