Metallic is Dan Osano's first tanka collection. Writing as an openly gay poet, it renders love in Kabukicho, anger and anguish toward society, joy, and feelings that resist easy resolution in vivid language.

A first tanka collection that vividly sings of love in Kabukicho and self-awareness around sexuality.

Yamashita Sho's first tanka collection. In an approachable, conversational register, it draws on food, family, and places visited to shape poems around memory, locality, and the feel of everyday life.

The collection includes poems that compare a hospital room's quiet to tofu and connect a mountain hot spring with family, using familiar images to measure emotional and geographical distance.