The publisher themselves points out, regarding the book: “How do poems sediment? Rosa Berbel’s new book understands poetry as a geological task, in which strata accumulate and the different times blur together to emerge in unexpected forms. Continuing with some intuitions she already addressed in
The Phantom Planets,
The Sedimentation peers into a landscape pierced by underground currents: those of affection, loss, and desire, which leave deep traces in matter
. Geological time and intimate time overlap to give rise to a discontinuous, musical and plastic story. Just like the sediments swept along by the current, the poems in this book are deposited in layers and configure a series with no beginning or end, traversed by repetitions and insistent images. Among those strata persist two crucial questions:
what forces shape our lives and what remnants remain after erosion
“.
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Author: Rosa Berbel. Title: The Sedimentation. Publisher: Tusquets. Availability: All of the author’s books.