The book consists of 33 brief poems by W.G. Sebald and 33 lithographs by Jan Peter Tripp of the eyes of Borges, Proust, Jasper Johns, Francis Bacon, Tripp, Sebald and Sebalds's dog Maurice among others. "The poems are anti-narative, epiphanic, and brief as haiku. The art and the poems do not explain each other, but rather engage in a kind of dialogue...behind the illusions of the surface, a dread-inspiring depth is concealed. It is the matphysical lining of reality." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.