The book consists of photographs and poems dealing mostly with negative feelings related to the title. The five loose photographs in this limited edition of five copies (size of trade edition unspecified) also appear in the book.Goodreadss review: Using the techniques of concrete and visual poetry, Heimrad Backer presents quotations from the Holocaust s planners, perpetrators, and victims. The book offers a startling collection of documents that confront us with details from the bureaucratic world of the Nazis and the intimate worlds they destroyed. Backer s sources range from victims letters and medical charts to train schedules and the telephone records of Auschwitz. His transcriptions and reworkings of these sources serve as a reminder that everything about the Shoah was spoken about in great detail, from the most banal to the most monstrous. transcript shows us that the Holocaust was not unspeakable, but was an eminently describable and described act spoken about by thousands of people concerned with the precision and even the beauty of their language. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.