A collection of poetry by various authors, chosen and translated by Gyrðir Elíasson.
Among those are Americans Richard Brautigan, Raymond Carver, James Wright, John Haines and Leo Dangel; Germans Ralf Thenior, Barböru Köhler, Kito Lorenc and Wolfgang Schiffer; Danes Jens August Schade and Erik Knudsen; and Czech Miroslav Holub. Also Persian 13th century poet Jelaluddin Rumi and Portugal's national poet Fernando Pessoa.