"Franz Spickhoff's. . . poetry sheds light on who he was and who he has become. His musings reveal his joys, and the inescapable darkness of life. . . the juxtaposition of both dark and light. It is his intimacy with silence that invites his poetry into being, enriching both his life and the life of his readers. . . if they dare to eat his words." -Duffie Bart (from the Introduction)