A poetry collection that quietly traces the contours of memory and the body through light, snow, and the lingering sense of what has been lost.

Behind the whiteness of snow, an enduring memory rises faintly into view.

Koike Hikari’s eleventh tanka collection. Carrying the weight of decades of composition, it cuts through the texture of daily life and the tremors of memory with sharp lyricism.

Within its lightness lives the weight of a long creative life.

Hoshino Takashi’s sixth haiku collection. Against the backdrop of the turmoil of the pandemic era, it gathers the atmosphere of everyday life and the seasons with a clear gaze.

Even amid chaos, the poems keep their quiet outline.