Birth is Yoshiaki Namura's second poetry collection. Set against grief and familial loss, it layers poems that look directly at the beginning and ending of life.

A poetry collection that faces the beginning and ending of life through private pain.

Recollections of the Postwar Kansai Poetry Scene is Heiichi Sugiyama's critical memoir of poets and poetry circles in postwar Kansai. Through essays on figures such as Yasushi Inoue, Shizuo Ito, Tatsuji Miyoshi, and Tozaburo Ono, it conveys the atmosphere of that literary milieu.

Through a poet's memory, the book revives the breathing life of the postwar Kansai poetry scene.