"Poems can endure time better than the most magnificent temples and palaces," says Marcel Reich-Ranicki. This volume gathers the most important and beautiful poems by German female poets from the Middle Ages to the present, as deemed by the literary critic. The diversity of this collection not only makes it an inspiring reading pleasure but also a unique literary and cultural history. Featuring poems by Annette von Droste-Hülshoff, Ricarda Huch, Nelly Sachs, Gertrud Kolmar, Marie Luise Kaschnitz, Mascha Kaléko, Friederike Mayröcker, Ingeborg Bachmann, Elisabeth Borchers, Sarah Kirsch, Ulla Hahn, Ulrike Draesner, and many others.