A poetry collection in which Takayuki Kiyooka crystallizes memories of May in Paris. With echoes of Rimbaud, Baudelaire, Mitsuharu Kaneko, and Tsuguharu Foujita, the memory of the city overlaps with the poet's bodily perception.

Memories of walking through Paris in May take on light within the poet.

Tamiko Onishi's ninth tanka collection. Through memories of life connected to Nara and Morioka, Buddhist images, and travel, it shapes aging, prayer, and beauty into poised poems.

Memories of travel and prayer spread through the poems like a mandala.

A late haiku collection by Seiho Awano. Carrying a long history within the Hototogisu school, it quietly observes nature and everyday detail, conveying the clarity of the poet's later years.

The gaze of old age quietly illuminates the details of nature.