Los sueños: Elegías

• In her latest publication, Elsa Cross works duality as a constant within her seasoned practice of reflecting interior visions; she shapes that concept as paradox, complement, transference, and revealed sign: the dual universe is present throughout the collection in the form and substance of its twenty-two poems, linking the internal more explicitly with the external through the expansive rhythm of her poetics.

• By far, Elsa Cross is among the poets most consistent with the form and substance of being for poetry. Among the women singers of God or the divine, she is the one who best expresses the exaltation of life; her poetry—woven throughout her poems—is a homage to fertility, rebirth, and the dawn glimpsed after the dream: 'The thread of light stretched / across the firmament of consciousness.' While we await the odes and the dithyramb, a dream draws near.

• The book by Elsa Cross before us now, Los sueños. Elegías, manages on the one hand to maintain the dense and mysterious oneiric substrate, and on the other, to unlock the seal of its extreme subjectivity by bringing into play, by virtue of rhythm, the sharpest images of a true and distilled experience.

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