In this new collection by Patrizia Cavalli, the short poems have almost the function of a chorus that, with tuneful and sometimes discordant voices, moves around the larger compositions. These include the poem in dramatic form Three Awakenings and the long closing poem that gives the book its title. 

"More and more with time it becomes clear that these poems are made to illuminate and know, because in every anxiety and shadow, in every perception and passion there is an enigma to be investigated."- Alfonso Berardinelli