A poetry collection that quietly gathers the voices and losses left in a place while following the traces of memory between Maebashi and Shimane. Its everyday language carries a gentle, warm intensity.

The memory of a place becomes a poem, one by one.

A poetry-critical study that follows language and memory while living on an island, using Sugawara Katsuki's poems and life as its guide. By moving back and forth between everyday life and postwar poetry, it draws readers into quiet reflection.

A reading guide to poetry and memory, walking alongside "the assignment from Sugawara Katsuki."