Throughout twenty-four passages, Description of a Cobalt Blue Glow tells a story that can only be told through poetry. Various voices, different spheres converge and alternate in it: the French poet Gérard de Nerval on the last day of his life, before he was hanged in a Paris alley, and the poet's own father dying in a hospital bed appear , from the beginning, transfigured; the rural Mexican landscape suddenly ends at a bridge over the Seine; a holy Levite and shows us that this river is none other than the Nile and that its route crosses the backyard of a house in the province of Mexico; a family travels in a small car through a road that would like to reach the sea, while the children who occupy the seats have been transformed into the swans of a story. The poetic word dissolves distances: all times are now, all places are here. Wakefulness and sleep mix their waters in this book –t...read more
