If Pablo Helguera’s The Boy Inside the Letter (Jorge Pinto Books, 2007) had adopted a subtitle, it would have to be “Longing: The Making of an Artist.” As it stands, the title is enigmatic, never hinting at the great waves of yearning inside. It suggests youth and writing—but there’s something vaguely uncomfortable about it. Is the “letter” a correspondence, a… return to article
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Reader Comments (9)Page 1 of 1 pagesIn the cold of my own.
Last night,
with a wispher
in the sunshine
of a melody, I tried
to invent the
sound of a tender
emotion and also
my life discovered
the minute and
a beautiful child.Francesco Sinibaldi
Posted by Sinibaldi on Jan 26, 2008 at 3:34 PM The sun and the blackbird.
Like a nightingale
coming back in the
dark I hear a
glimmer escaping
in the twigs of
a quietness, and
finally a martin,
smiling and tender.Francesco Sinibaldi
Posted by Sinibaldi on Feb 2, 2008 at 2:46 PM Romantic America.
Romantic America,
when a rosaceous
sunset lightens
the world near a
frail little brook,
and where everything
shines like a
diamond in the
heart of a forest ;
the north wind
is blowing, the light
of a fine day
invents an emotion,
and I love you
America....Francesco Sinibaldi
Posted by Sinibaldi on Feb 9, 2008 at 3:08 PM The light of a new day.
The light of
a new day
solicits a blackbird
in the care
of a craving,
in the beautiful
darkness of a
sunny concept,
in the songs
of my heart, like
a tender idea
now reflecting
the straw.Francesco Sinibaldi
Posted by Sinibaldi on Feb 16, 2008 at 2:36 PM Perception of love.
In a pensive
pigeon, and near
the colour of
a perpetual land,
there’s a resolute
sound now
reflecting a savour
of love, that
greeting and the
delicate prudence.Francesco Sinibaldi
Posted by Sinibaldi on Feb 23, 2008 at 2:57 PM The silent sound of a waterfall.
Near the bush
where singing
blackbirds describe
a signal of care
I see the beautiful
darkness, and
also that sunset,
when my sound
fades away, discovers
a dream and a
tender idea.Francesco Sinibaldi
Posted by Sinibaldi on Mar 1, 2008 at 3:03 PM Sadness and melodies.
Usually, when
the sound of
a pine-wood
touches a care and
a beautiful darkness,
I hear a picture
and a fallen desire,
and here, in my
childhood, a flower
escapes…Francesco Sinibaldi
Posted by Sinibaldi on Mar 8, 2008 at 3:07 PM The damask rose and the martin.
Here, in the
deep and intense
atmosphere of
the first morning,
the rising sun
appears in a magical
sky and always,
like the light
of my mind, a
pleasure returns.Francesco Sinibaldi
Posted by Sinibaldi on Mar 15, 2008 at 3:11 PM A canticle and the romance.
When the sunshine
returns in the
light of a gentle
delight, remember
the sound of a
rosy notepaper,
discover the wisdom
in the care of a
beautiful darkness
and so, in the sky,
that delicate dream
will touch your
profile....Francesco Sinibaldi
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