In this new volume of poems Joachim Sartorius remains faithful to his main themes. These are sensuality and transitoriness, physical love and its older brother, death. Thus, this collection of poems culminates in a danse macabre, in a frantic journey into the realm of the dead. Many of the new poems deal with real or imaginary pictures and sing hymns on the visionary power of painting. The orient is again present. The »cities of the East« are foreign places, border crossings to intimate topographies; they lead into a hazardous, exquisite area of metaphors. The journeys, the painfully intense memory and the meditation at his ‹workplace› are to Joachim Sartorius all a complex expression for writing and they give answers to the question obstinately asked by him concerning nature of the special place which the poem offers.
