Wise about life and full of zest for living: The collected poems of Franz Hohler are in search of the precious, fleeting nature of time. Spanning nearly five decades, this complete collection of Franz Hohler's lyrical work presents a colorful assortment of nature poems, word games, misreadings, and cleverly light thoughts that continually strive to grasp one thing anew: this precious, terribly fleeting, yet profoundly humorous essence of time. In Franz Hohler's poems, not only does the passage of years and decades emerge, but an entire biography unfolds.