Touching poems, full of passion and at the same time marked by formal rigor - a rosary, a book of hours of love. Annemarie Bostroem's collection of poems was first published in 1947. In 39 formally strict compositions, the young poet expressed her love for the expressionist Friedrich Eisenlohr, who was three decades her senior. Despite being harshly criticized by the literary reviewer of the Soviet occupation zone, the poems soon became a bestseller. On the occasion of the author's 90th birthday, a new edition of "The Terzines of the Heart" is being released, featuring a foreword by Nora Gomringer.