Of Death. Minimal Odes 3 Summers their shadows still residing over

their shadows still residing over the landscape and its mythology

both interpersonal and impersonal

This is a return of a political surrealism when its convulsive bloom is most needed

As the United States abandoned them at the end of its war in Vietnam

and absurdities of making art and family and meaning against a backdrop of interlocking

Of Death. Minimal Odes 3 Summers their shadows still residing overHilda Hilst If life is no more than a prolonged flirtation with death, then Hilda Hilst's Of Death. Minimal Odes is the true account of a lifelong seduction. It is at once both a reverie and reliquary, as the poet imagines and reimagines that most paradoxical moment of disintegration the corporeal flesh fusing with death's own dark corpus. With a visceral mystical poetic voice that is as teasingly unrestrained as it is intellectually sublime, Hilst's