Wide awake, I go to sleep presents a selection of one hundred poems from four decades. For forty years, Michael Krüger, known to the world as a publisher, editor, critic, and author, has been publishing poetry collections: featuring both long and short lines, as well as a wide variety of poems. A multitude of observations and experiences, questions and reflections, words and things flow into his poetry—sensitive artistic creations that maintain clarity amidst abundance. In Michael Krüger's poems, it is not about simplification, messaging, or virtuoso surprises, but always about keeping an openness: a voice in linguistic spaces, constellations of presence.