With unparalleled precision and powerful language, Lydia Steinbacher casts a timeless gaze upon the world. Her poems are born during travels, under the covers, in foreign and familiar minds alike. Through her poetry, she senses the essential and fundamental in every place, explores human traits, delves deep into landscapes, and transcends layers of time. At the same time, she makes the exposure and torn nature of contemporary humanity palpable. Often, it is just moments or gestures in which a word condenses into a poem, a story, a whole stream. Lydia Steinbacher's language strikes readers with gentle force, and her poems are felt viscerally.