Elegies de Caldes

The poetic work of Albert Mestres is distinguished, on the one hand, by the uniqueness of his poetic voice and the frankness of his diction, and, on the other, by the organicity and compactness of his books. This time, Albert Mestres' proposal is a set of deliberately prosaic elegies born from the experiences of a sixty-year-old man during confinement. The sum of these experiences, woven with the strong threads that link the day to day, offers readers a tapestry that is both rich and stripped, and that culminates with this colophon:January eleventh - today I am sixty-one years oldand the night in the hospital - my father sleeps peacefully this ends