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Este libro es, en realidad, dos libros: Poemas Gao, que surge a partir de la contemplación de la obra pictórica y literaria de Gao Xingjian (Premio Nobel de Literatura del año 2000) y Las horas despejadas, poemario inspirado por la isla de Cerdeña a través de los trabajos del alemán Ernst Jünger y de la fotógrafa sarda Marina Anedda. Una obra de introspección lírica con poderosas influencias orientales, por medio de la cual el paisaje y la topografía acceden, junto a la voz poética, al protagonismo del poema.

All the poems in this work are those that the author has published between 1995 and 2001. Some poems that were later made into songs appear in both versions. As in the previous Inventario books, this one starts with the most recent poems and concludes with the oldest, perhaps with the hopes that the reader, by having access to this work through the newest and nearest door, will soon be tempted to open other doors, as if doing an inventory.

Chaque matin, lorsque la nuit cède sa place au jour et que l’éveil succède au sommeil, les désirs nocturnes s’évanouissent, laissant un rêveur désœuvré face à un nouvel horizon inconnu. À ce temps qui sans cesse échappe et efface les souvenirs, Calaive oppose d’élégants poèmes imprégnés de nostalgie. À défaut de remonter le temps, l’auteure tente d’infléchir son cours par les mots. Elle fait parler les silences, réveille les souvenirs et s’empare de l’avenir. Au gré des levers de soleil, sa plume languissante s’attarde sur les petits riens du quotidien,...

Jean Hollander, an accomplished poet, and Robert Hollander, a renowned scholar and master teacher, whose joint translation of the Inferno was acclaimed as a new standard in English, bring their respective gifts to Purgatorio in an arresting and clear verse translation. Featuring the original Italian text opposite the translation, their edition offers an extensive and accessible introduction as well as generous historical and interpretive commentaries that draw on centuries of scholarship and Robert Hollander’s own decades of teaching and reasearch. In the second book of Dante’s epic poem...