Max Richard Leßmann: Küss mich nur ganz kurz für immer

In *Kiss Me Just for a Moment, Forever*, Max Richard Leßmann brings together his favorite love poems from nearly a decade of prolific poetic work. Since 2017, the author has been posting a poem on Instagram every day. Love in all its forms has always been a central theme. He finds clear words to express complex emotions, evoking memories and longings in often just a few lines.

Leßmann has always placed great importance on the practical relevance of his texts. He sees himself in the tradition of Erich Kästner’s “everyday poetry,” but sometimes takes it a few steps further in keeping with the spirit of our times. Time and again, he surprises us with what we’ve secretly been thinking—or rather, feeling—all along. Leßmann’s love poems are unmistakably of today, yet they’re full of disarming confessions that transcend time. 

*Küss mich nur ganz kurz für immer* is Max Richard Leßmann’s second poetry collection. His first collection, *Liebe in Zeiten der Follower*, published by KiWi in 2019—which he presented to great acclaim last year at the ROMANFABRIK—was a Spiegel bestseller.