"Childhood is longer than life," reads the epigraph by Ana María Matute that opens this collection of poems. Here, a baby girl has just been born, and in an act of overwhelming survival instinct, the lyrical voice seeks ways to transmit to her its affections and passions, its familiar forms of love. Thus, this book is an attempt to understand how languages are inherited and projected.
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