The Palette of Words is a moving and thought-provoking poetry collection. Each of the poems opens with a one-word title, selected from the extensive palette of words in English. Poet Yuu Ikeda has crafted her reflections and feelings about each of the chosen words into a poem.

Although the poems are presented alphabetically, from "Afterglow" to "Zero," this organizing framework does not feel clumsy or artificial. Indeed, the contents of the volume flow as naturally as water in a stream or blood in the veins. Throughout the book, Ikeda's poems glow like gems from the pages.