This book of poems by Lila Zemborain offers a meditative space built around the number four, a tricky measurement of the brain that connects us symbolically with foundations, logic, reason, the material ground, and consequently the human and mortal in contraposition to the divine. The squares of which this book is composed resemble surfaces where thought is flattened and refrained. However one can find invisible hinges that allow us to look inside our intellect and peek as far as sight can get, even though the borders of matter whisper in our ears that we cannot transcend; that we begin and end in a limited numbers of cells. We can look but how often do we see.
Lila Zemborain (Buenos Aires, Argentina, 1955) poeta y crítica literaria residente de Nueva York desde 1985. Es co-fundadora y profesora en la Maestría de Escritura Creativa y de literatura en el Departamento de Español y Portugués de la Universidad de Nueva York, la cual dirigió entre 2009 al 2012 y actualmente dirige. En el 2006 enseñó en Naropa University, Summer Writing Program. Entre los años 2001 y 2002 colaboró como corresponsal de arte en Nueva York con la revista Arte al Día Internacional. Del año 2000 al ...