In the morning, I remember the constellation of your freckles. I draw it on my skin between scars and wrinkles. Venus waits in vain for the evening. The art of extracting poetic power from the heaviest moments. In her new collection of poems, Sabine Gruber writes touchingly and personally, always simply about loss, farewell, and grief: about the longing and emptiness that remain, but also about the indelible memories of beauty. The lines of the award-winning author captivate with moving immediacy, linguistic precision, and brevity. She effortlessly transforms her impressions into words. A short but dense and intense read in bibliophile quality. Vivid and intimate poems by Sabine Gruber. Sabine Gruber is one of the most important writers of her generation. In novels such as "Die Zumutung" (2003), "Stil.".