This volume brings together two of his latest books of poems, La larga cadena del ancla (2008) and La hora presente (2011), characterized by a greater formal freedom and a loose and stripped down style, capable of illuminating the most diverse issues. From the meditations in free verse of the two homonymous poems to the irregular sonnets with which he responds to the stimulus of travels, readings and childhood memories, passing through long prose texts in which mystery and a rare language transparency are allied to propose variations on the myth of Eden, Shakespeare's Hamlet or the visit of death, Bonnefoy's voice became more profound, wiser and more pressing than ever.