This volume brings together poems by Ulla Hahn from the past four decades, complemented by new, previously unpublished texts. The melodies of Ulla Hahn's verses possess distinctive, idiosyncratic tones; their rhythms linger long in the ears of enthusiastic readers. In the open interplay of new and traditional forms, she finds words for love and despair, remembering and forgetting, history and the present. The major themes that define her poetry remain; the poet's perspective has broadened, becoming both more serene and freer. Forty years of love and life poetry that endures.