The poems and graphics by Gunther Grass collected in this edition were created in Denmark in the late summer of 2006. They represent Gunther Grass's artistic reaction to the media debate surrounding the publication of his memoirs, The Onion of Memory. So, from disparate emotions and impressions, a book appeared — an art object where text and illustrations form an inseparable whole. As if she wanted to lull me to sleep, my wife came over and started calling my friends names, over and over again, and I repeated them after her. Everything will be fine, everything will be fine, that's what she promised; but only the weather has changed. A gift edition. Author's illustrations. I repeat all this and even more to myself every day: It's a beautiful morning . . . and the disgust that comes to my soul as soon as, contrary to reason, I open the newspaper. For lovers of poetry, the work of Gunther Grass, connoisseurs of original graphics.