"Once the day began with a gunshot wound" - with this collection of short prose texts, Wolf Wondratschek established himself as a cult author. As a radical, loving, experimental bohemian, he wrote verses of laconic elegance and serenity. "No lyricist speaks about love today as reliably as Wolf Wondratschek." - Der Spiegel "His poems are like shots into a heart that beats for the strong things in life." - Frankfurter Neue Presse "It may be that not much will remain of German poetry from the seventies. The poems of this author will endure." - Marcel Reich-Ranicki.