Friederike Mayröcker collected memories and dreams, conversations and quotes, impressions and observations on notepads after the death of her writing and life partner Ernst Jandl. She shook her text and seized the fruitful moment when writing and harvesting become one, allowing words and sentences to fall onto the paper like ripe fruits. The result is a poetic indulgence of memory that transforms even the most miserable and transient things into particles of magic, preserving them: securely sheltered within the depths of language. "And I Shook a Favorite" is a moving book about the power of grief, love, and poetry: farewell and return in one.