The poetry of the Roma and Sinti from around the world. Translated from about 20 languages and compiled by Wilfried Ihrig and Ulrich Janetzki. A literature that is "widely published and still almost unknown today" - Karl-Markus Gauss. It is the result of years of searching in the antiquarian bookstores and libraries of Europe, the outcome of literary research at the sources, the discoveries of rare books: The poetry of the Roma and Sinti, Lovara, Kalderasch, Gitanos, Gypsies, Travellers, or Jenische. Never before has the diversity of such an elusive literature been presented so comprehensively. The anthology includes not only those lyrical self-testimonies written in one of the variants of Romanes or Romani, but also poems translated from about 20 languages from three continents into German. Far from any caravan folklore and "Gypsy" novels.