As quirky as his artistic name 'Ringelnatz', so are the verses of the poet who was actually named Hans Bötticher: sometimes cheeky and frivolous, sometimes boisterous, whimsical, and 'delightfully happy', then again deeply thoughtful and melancholic, they focus on the small things in life - a spool of thread, a soap bubble, a speck of dust, or a flea - but also on the 'human-all-too-human': love, vices, fulfilled and disappointed longings. Despite this wide range, what makes the poems unmistakable is their tender and joyful confession to the here and now, written in a language that is as beautifully curled as the seahorses from which this incomparable poet took his name. This anthology includes: Children's Confusion Book, Gymnastics Poems, Kuttel Daddeldu or the Slippery Sorrow, and many more.