Description: Urgent, essential poems that speak to us about the love of poetry and the love of love, about desire and about the desire to live it and write it. The theme running through the book -- made up of brief poems drawn from fragments of the author's diary -- is youth. She tells us, defiantly: she will give away her rosy cheek for nothing in return. Sometimes the young poet dies of youth, like Casanova, or of some illness, like the author of 2666. Or of poetry. But she never stops being twenty years old.
