[About the Book]
One day, the world begins to look just slightly different.
Not because of a major event, but due to a faint, unexplainable sense of something being “off.”

This collection of poetry moves quietly between reality and imagination, beginning with familiar scenes from everyday life.
A man dressed like Santa, who was digging for wild yams in the hills behind the house-only to vanish without a trace.
A presence that runs along an icy road, warning of danger to life.
A girl who sends a silent signal after seeing my swollen, darkened eye.
Ordinary landscapes, moments in time, words, people, animals, and plants-
once carried by the rhythm of poetry, they begin to gently yet powerfully unsettle our sense of the world.

As you read on, you will come to realize:
this is not a collection about “strange events.”

It is a book of poems that allows us to reconnect with the emotions and memories we have long overlooked.

[Author Profile]
Naoya Shibasawa

Born December 8, 1940.
Graduated from the Department of English, Gifu University.

■Works
Poetry collections
“Summer at Nineteen” (1965), Shichosha.
“The Jumper over the Butterfly” (1985), Choeisha.
“Crayfish in the Rain” (1993).
Novels
“Light of Grass”
“Fake Letters,” etc.

■Overseas Activities
In the early 1990s, poems in the newsletter of Dr. Teresinka Pereira (USA).
“The poem BLUE SAINT” translated into Korean by Dr. Kim Young-sam (Korean magazine: 1992).
From 1995, works in the monthly magazine POET (India), etc. (through 2007).
Edited by Dr. Santosh Kumar (Allahabad): Works including THE SHARK PLAYS WITH A BLACK CAT included in THE EDGE OF THE METAPHOR (2004).
Poetry collection MEMORIES (2005).
Poet of the Millennium Award (2000) from the International Poets Academy [Chairman: Dr. Krishna Srinivas].
Milan International Literature Grand Prize (2015), etc.