<!doctype html public «-//w3c//dtd html 4.0 transitional//en»> http-equiv=content-type> Uwe Johnson’s novel Anniversaries weaves poetic sequences and realities into an artfully composed montage to represent a process of remembrance that is at once fragile and complex. This study combines linguistic and literary approaches to explore the unique structure of this poetics of memory – the reciprocal referentiality of memory and what is remembered – in each of its singular facets.