A Europe of wars and destruction, but also of creative unrest that culminates in incomparable works of art: A young Mujahid painfully misses his Oslo neighborhood Grønland, the history of Poland seems to emerge in Warsaw notes, everyday poems stand alongside love songs and the death mask of John Keats. A hesitant Orpheus observes people in the tram and magnificent facades in Vienna. The sparrow in Osterhausgasse flutters before Titian's Actaeon. His poems "... pose the big questions, with full seriousness, and that makes Ulrik Farestad a rara avis, a rare bird, in Norwegian literature." Henning Næss.