Poetry. Translated from the Italian by Emanuel di Pasquale. Roberto Bertoldo, founder and editor of the international literary review Hebenon, writes letters to the magpie, the cicada, and the pallet, and they answer him. Both microcosm and macrocosm, the book startles. His suggestive, philosophical lines make us pause and think: We win / through the atmoshphere that praises the shadows. He hears the tone / that whispers with the leaves / when they fall. His words make us wish we were poets ourselves; they urge us to listen with new ears, to see with new eyes -- Emanuel di Pasquale.