The book, after the dune, praised by some of the greatest writers of the twentieth century, has imposed itself as a modern classic of poetry written in Spanish. Under the wordsworth sign, Andrés Sánchez Robayna creates a long-breath poem composed of seventy-seven fragments. And in each of them time returns and is compressed to articulate a long meditation on the life of a poet, from his childhood until his maturity, and his discovery of the world, of love and of words. But perhaps it is also a meditation on the very life of poetry, its epiphany, its occurrence, its hidden knowledge, its solar emergence.
As in the great modern tradition, this poem is, at the same time, a reflection on poetry and its celebration. A battle for saying and a search for silence. An opening to the world and an inner refuge. A knowledge and a not knowing. Fragment and long construction. Igneous stone a...read more
