"Fleeting and carefree like a down feather, poems could be," wrote Albrecht Goes. At the same time, for him, they were "a cosmos, a whole world. An unspoiled world? Perhaps. Perhaps also the longing for an unspoiled world, or the demand for it, or the memory or the gratitude." It is up to the reader "to ceaselessly search for the zone where thinking and feeling, dreaming and waking are together, for the zone of mystery and transformation." This volume contains a carefully curated selection from his entire lyrical work.