Eighty: These are the most beautiful poems of a poetess who has left behind a manageable, impressive, and unique body of work. The poems of Elisabeth Borchers possess a wonderfully calming and atmospherically dense quality; they are elegant, unobtrusive, and refreshingly simple. In a time dominated by noise and greed, they invite moments of pause, reflection, and tranquility, although this was not the poetess's intention. The editors, Anya Schutzbach and Rainer Weiss, aim to commemorate Elisabeth Borchers with this volume, with whom they collaborated for many years at Suhrkamp Verlag—and who would have turned eighty in February 2014.