"The Adriatic poems by Tom Schulz see our planet in its beauty, the diversity of things, plants and living beings that are exposed to an increasing destructive danger. The poetically evoked questions about a livelihood on and with the earth create new connotations and a space of imagination that makes place and time recognizable and tangible. Linguistic and formal rigor contrast with the aesthetics of natural beauty and sensual abundance. - Places are also central to the second large cycle in the volume: In them we encounter stories and biographies of literary figures from the Günderode and Novalis to Johannes Bobrowski and Uwe Johnson. They are evoked from the atmosphere of their surroundings, be it urban or scenic topographies and moods. Success and failure, happiness and tragic circumstances are transformed into crystalline linguistic music." (Publisher)