The butterflies that Jan Wagner pulls out of the net and makes fly loops in this book of poems could also be Munich crows, martens in a blood frenzy, or a biker from Montana. The crucial thing is: they fly. Whatever object or creature Jan Wagner captures and poetically transforms, he cancels out the laws of gravity - even the walled Forbidden City begins to hover, and our perception and our thinking become less inert with every verse we read. With each volume, on the other hand, Jan Wagner seems to gain in sovereignty; his virtuosity of form is revealed in "Live Butterfly Show" as a carefree delight in freedom in form, in sound, which is great fun.