But there is no

Beat Sterchi is known as an author who can recite his texts in an incomparable way, in a tone of voice that you won't forget. In "Aber gibt es keins" he shows his texts, because they are often like pictures: Word pictures. And here everything counts, the typography, the font size, every word. "Seven days in Venice," for example, and below it in bold capital letters: "No car seen today," seven times. Whether this refers to a lucky circumstance or simply bad luck remains open. That it is tricky, however, seems clear. In the tradition of "concrete poetry," Sterchi's word pictures show what the dowry of language is: words are loaded with small and smallest stories, and sometimes it is enough to make these words known to each other, to bring them together, to let them tell stories. The word pictures are juxtaposed in this volume with short poems,.