The Grammar of Night

von Sara Da Encarnação

106 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

What language remains when ordinary language is no longer enough?The Grammar of Night brings together poems, lyrics and stories written at the threshold between what can be spoken and what must first be endured in silence. Across more than one hundred pages, Sara da Encarnação explores darkness not as an absence of meaning, but as a territory with its own laws: a place where memory alters its shape, love survives without certainty, and what has vanished continues to exert its pressure upon the living.These pieces move between the intimate and the elemental, from the body and its private reckonings to the sea, the moon, fire, winter, abandoned rooms and unnamed presences. Some speak in the measured concentration of poetry; others carry the rhythm and recurrence of song; others unfold as brief narratives in which reality opens quietly onto mystery. Together, they form neither a diary nor a conventional anthology, but a nocturnal architecture built from recurrence, rupture and return.At the centre of the collection lies a persistent question: what remains of us after loss has changed the conditions under which we recognise ourselves? The answer is never offered as consolation. It appears instead through traces - a voice remembered, a door left open, a name carried through darkness, a fragment of beauty that refuses to become evidence of innocence.The Grammar of Night is a book for readers drawn to lyrical intensity, philosophical reflection and writing that does not simplify grief, desire, solitude or survival. It is concerned with the invisible structures that shape a life, and with the strange fidelity of all that continues to speak after the world believes it has fallen silent.

• Reihe: Independently published
• ISBN: 9798176350364
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 22.09.2026
• Größe: 216 x 140 mm
• Verlag: Independently published