Lutz Seiler's new poems, created between 2000 and 2003, embark on a journey through forty kilometers of night. They lead out of the devastated landscape of origin marked by uranium mining, through German avenues, and behind rows of garages into the historical layers of central German and Brandenburg regions. With extraordinary musicality and linguistic power, the author connects the biographical, the landscape, and the political into nervous systems of memory. It is the simple, concrete things that make history momentarily legible, in an instantaneously precise, unrepeatable constellation of the present. Before each poem, Lutz Seiler wrote, lies the history we have experienced. The poem captures its tone; it does not narrate it, it conveys its tone. Thoughtful and close to the substances.