Rose Ausländer's poems are both soft and brittle. As brief, terse, and simple as her verses often sound, they are also bold. This is how Renate Wiggershaus described Rose Ausländer's poetry in this collection from the years 1957 to 1969. It includes the book "Blinder Sommer," which was first published in 1965 and brought the poet into the literary spotlight, the subsequent collection "36 Gerechte" from 1967, as well as ten scattered published poems. Stylistically, there is a radical transformation in Rose Ausländer's poetry: she contrasts rhyme and closed forms with the opening of her poems through poetic conciseness. Encouraged by Paul Celan, she finds a nearly seamless connection to modern poetry.