Keijiro Suga, "Library Anthology"

The library is a forest, a forest of books. It is the place that has always nurtured us.
(From the Afterword)

Jorge Luis Borges dreamed of heaven as a "kind of library."
Visiting public libraries across the country, from Wakkanai to Kagoshima and Okinawa, the author wrote these twelve pieces, each guided by a book encountered on-site. From Greek mythology and Ainu epic songs to explorers' travelogues—this is a unique collection of long travel poems where the voices of animals, the memories of the land, and multiple languages resonate together.

Includes a bookmark insert with comments from 17 contributors: Hiroyuki Akama, Naoki Ishikawa, Toshiaki Ishikura, Kon Ito, Marie Kanai, Yasushi Kawase, Taku Kawauchi, Yusuke Koshima, Satoshi Koganezawa, Junichi Konuma, Ai Sasaki, Maiko Sugimoto, Dorian Sukegawa, Rumi Hara, Noriko Matsuda, Kenji Matsumoto, and Miwa Yanagi.

Table of Contents
(Libraries visited for each poem. Poem titles consist only of work numbers.)
1. Nasushiobara City Library Miruru (Honcho, Nasushiobara City, Tochigi Prefecture)
2. Okinawa Prefectural Library Kahuna Asahibashi (Izumizaki, Naha City, Okinawa Prefecture)
3. Yamato City Cultural Complex Sirius (Yamato-minami, Yamato City, Kanagawa Prefecture)
4. Anjo City Library Anfore (Miyukihonmachi, Anjo City, Aichi Prefecture)
5. Ebina City Central Library (Chuo, Ebina City, Kanagawa Prefecture)
6. Kagoshima City Tenmonkan Library (Sennichicho, Kagoshima City, Kagoshima Prefecture)
7. Hakodate City Central Library (Goryokaku-cho, Hakodate City, Hokkaido)
8. Fukuoka City Public Library (Momochihama, Sawara-ku, Fukuoka City, Fukuoka Prefecture)
9. Gifu City Central Library Gifu Media Cosmos (Tsukasamachi, Gifu City, Gifu Prefecture)
10. Kurume City Central Library (Nonakamachi, Kurume City, Fukuoka Prefecture)
11. Marugame City Central Library (Hamacho, Marugame City, Kagawa Prefecture)
12. Wakkanai City Library (Daikoku, Wakkanai City, Hokkaido)
Afterword

(From the publisher's website)