With joy and love, with cunning and trickery, Peter von Matt brings together poetry and readers. One of the most intelligent and witty interpreters of the short form, he presents sixty lyrical gems or classics in this book. He approaches poetry elegantly, each time enticing the reader to embark on a trail of their own thoughts: on the beauties of nature, on politics and society, on transience and death, on love in its thousand forms. The list of presented poems spans from the Middle Ages to the present, offering a concentrated selection of German poetry, full of appreciation for the famous and with open eyes for discoveries along the byways.