Tetsuo Shimizu’s poetry collection captures Tokyo with language that is both nimble and unsettling. Views of the modern city, moving bodies, and details of everyday life flow into the poems with sharp sensory force.

From a single drop of Tokyo, the sensation of living in the city rises.

A late tanka collection by Yoshimi Kondo, shaping prayer, history, and daily labor into disciplined poems. The ethical sensibility and lyricism of a poet central to postwar tanka appear with quiet intensity.

A tanka collection that settles the time of prayer and daily labor into disciplined form.

A haiku collection by Seito Hirahata. The gaze of a physician and the compressed language of a haiku poet meet here, fixing the presence of body, time, life, and death with sharpness.

Medical and poetic experience illuminate body and time within brief language.