Josef Winkler writes against the power of rituals by vividly, imaginatively, and passionately repeating them in a language that reveals their repressive nature. Power rituals are simultaneously language rituals; this is Josef Winkler's insight, drawn from his own experiences as a farmer's child in a Catholic village in Carinthia. The language of Josef Winkler emerges from a place of multiple contradictions, outsider status, and corresponding wounds, creating a voice that expresses the breath of necessity, originality, and legitimacy.