"Lichtwechsel" is a hybrid of a special kind: It is not only a best-of collection of the renowned poet Miki Sakamoto, making the most beautiful poems of her seventy-year life accessible to a wide readership, but also a making-of, as each poem is accompanied by a prose miniature in which the nature writing author, celebrated for her precise descriptions, translates the moments of creation into linguistic meditation. Additionally, the volume contains Japanese translations as a tribute to her readers in her homeland.