Ala de cuervo

By Eva Feld Overexposure kills poetry. Metaphors are in danger, especially in erotica. By diminishing the power of secrecy, all mysteries become narrow shadows of what they were meant to be in literature. It was common knowledge that meanings meander between the lines as well as in the choice of words and silences picked by a writer to narrate, describe, tell or show. It seems as if today the empire of the images and of entertainment considers the art of subtlety a menace to its domain. Sex, for example, is sex, only sex, nothing but sex. Maybe Gertrude Stein would feel a cold tremor go down her back if she came to suspect that her arch famous phrase, “A rose is a rose is a rose” could be at the root of such simplicity. No more hiding the female genitalia under a protecting veil of poetic detours such as the Shakespearean expression velvet leaves or attributing the power of arms to the penis by calling it dart . No more complex and iconic characters, such as Gustave v...

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