Una vida de pueblo

The slow passing of the days, with its rhythms that seem to abolish time. The peculiar geometry of the streets that radiate from the central plaza. The cycle of cultivation and harvest, where death is simultaneously cosmic and tiny, where rebirth is as certain as the sun. The tempo of an existence unfolded among hills, painfully far from the sea. Louise Glück condenses the rural day-to-day life of the United States into A village life, with its animals and inhabitants, whose exuberant youth and subsequent decline seem to echo the nature that surrounds them. With a subtle and ironic eye, with a sharp diction, he shows us the hidden side of this apparently simple becoming, displaying without fear the deep passions that take place within him.