Durs Grünbein's new poetry book is a poetic work of remembrance, as well as a book of transitions and transformations. In seven sections and a variety of verse forms, a panorama of the worldview unfolds here. Poems about origins are at the beginning, before the eeriness of modern mobility reveals itself, particularly in the travel poem. An interlude, stanzas for the day after tomorrow, leads to that central place where the poet has been at home for a quarter of a century: Transit Berlin. Right in the heart of the metropolis, on Museum Island, one finds the concentrated interplay of past, present, and future. Yet again, distance exerts its magic. A series of strangely unreal character pieces with a song-like speaking gesture accompanies the crossing of the Alps towards an imaginary antiquity and leads to the fundamental question of this poetry: What is.