Lexicon of Affinities by Ida Vitale #joyce quietly going about her tasks

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Lexicon of Affinities by Ida Vitale #joyce quietly going about her tasksA prowl through words reveals the unstable character of the cosmos. With entries as varied as elbow, Ophelia, progress, the painter Giorgio Morandi, chess, Eulalia (a friend of the authors aunt), and unicorn, Ida Vitale constructs a dictionary of her long and passionately engaged artistic life. Taking the reader by the arm, she invites us to become her confidant, sharing her remarkable 20th century as a member of a storied generation of Latin American