Johannes Kühn, one of the most widely read poets of our time, turns eighty years old. With simple means, trained in the hymns of German Romanticism and Classicism, he creates highly graceful, perfectly formed works, whose countenance always reveals a subtle cleverness. The verses in his new collection of poems deal with nature and animals, aging, and everyday things: "I bought hiking boots, now the area is mine." Johannes Kühn, who has followed his path away from all trends, demonstrates that poetry today has lost none of its persuasive power.