Ah, how beautiful it has been, oh, how we enjoyed it when we ate chicken with bean sprouts back then at the Chinese restaurant. Ah, how lovely is the sound of the "great end rhymester" Christian Maintz, who is known to lovers of humorous poetry from many anthologies. "Love in Local Venues" gathers all his poems for the first time. They revolve around the mysteries of love: they evoke ecstatic moments on the ICE train, at the sausage counter, and in the outdoor pool of Bad Oldesloe. They question the great thinkers and poets - Goethe, Kant, and Nietzsche - take us on a partridge hunt, and provide insights into the love lives of wild boars, insects, and rodents. As wise as they are poetic and witty, these poems are so wonderfully rhymed that it is pure joy to read them.