El valle de las mariposas

The beauty of Inger Christensen's poetry lies in the combination of its structural rigor, analogous to that of mathematics or music, and the lyricism and energy of her style, as revealed by the four short works that this volume brings together. Escalera de agua is a suite in which the poetic voice travels through five squares and five fountains in the city of Rome, and whose structure, based on the repetitions and variations of the elements that make up the text, achieves deep aesthetic resonances. Letter in April, inspired by serial music, is a poem that tells the journey of a woman and her son to a foreign country, a journey that turns out to be a journey to the heart of childhood, represented in the learning of a new language . In Poema sobre la muerte, the poet faces the blank page, glimpses in it the beginning of the end, and begins a reflection on life, the passage of time, the impossibility of writing and the feeling that the end is near of his days. The volume closes with the last work that Christensen wrote, The Valley of the Butterflies. A requiem, one of his most complex and delicate poems, a crown of sonnets that describe the beauty and fragility of butterflies, and in which the themes of memory and, again, death, resonate, and whose form, he will discover the reader, it is that of a perfect circle. The Valley of the Butterflies is a new opportunity to immerse ourselves in the work of Christensen, who made his poetry a truly universal place: the mirror of the world.