Description :
Bo is twenty-two years old. She walks around Brussels with school exercise books and verses by Laforgue. In silence, she dreams of poetry. And little by little, this silence takes shape. It imposes itself through the song of the blackbird and the shade of the trees that line her blue room. It takes on the mysterious form of Watteau's Gilles. From now on, he offers himself as a case in which to untie his pen and become what he is: ?a poet and nothing else?. Bo becomes Jean Dominique. His verses, at once melancholy and luminous, reveal a silence whose double intimacy we sense. The authoress Jean Dominique tells us about Bo, at the age of seventy-nine, in a story where memories inhabit silence to tame its very near eternity. And what her poetry strives to conceal is whispered this time. In this triptych volume, Jean Dominique's poetry is revealed in its most intimate prosody. It is both poem and self-narrative... and is rediscovered through the eyes of the woman she silently loved for over fifty years.