These poems radically construct memories from the immediacy of the present, such as life in a small town in Austria during the late 1960s, and moments of joy, sorrow, and happiness in the urban life of the advancing 21st century. The 99 texts of "Grüner Anker" consist of autobiographical long poems and reflections that are both linguistic and self-critical. They offer poetic expansiveness as well as examples of extreme reduction. Poetry and intellectuality do not exclude each other but heed a demand from Elfriede Gerstl: poems may argue, but they do not have to.