In the canon
Desolación
- Form
- Form Poetry Collection
- Year
- Year 1922
- Originally in
- Originally in Spanish
- Pages
- Pages 250
From the frozen niche where men had laid the body of the man she loved, she vows to carry him down into the humble, sunlit earth herself, and lay him there the way a mother lays a sleeping child. That promise opens the Sonnets of Death, written in the aftermath of a suicide, and it sets the temperature of the whole book: grief carried like a physical weight, a love that outlived its object and had nowhere left to go.
From the frozen niche where men had laid you, I will bring you down to the humble, sunlit earth.
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