A poetry collection by Yoshio Kashiwagi. As the title Somon suggests, it centers on address and response, joining intimate feeling with everyday scenery in restrained language.

Between the calling voice and answering silence, an intimate poetic space opens.

A poetry collection by Takuo Umeda. It attends to the placement and distance of things, bringing out the texture of existence in daily life through concise, intellectually shaped language.

From a gaze fixed on the position of things, the depth of everyday life quietly opens.

A poetry collection by Takashi Suzuki, later published by Shikaisha as Suzuki Takashi Shishu: Aru no Uta. Behind its simple title is a poetic search for the roots of language and life.

A poetry collection that reconsiders the feeling of “being” from the roots of life and language.