Lorand Gaspar. La poésie, au-delà des mots

Lorand Gaspar’s poetry seems to be a journey to the end of language, where word and world meet in a burst of light, a horizon where the intimacy of the self and its history lends a state of mystery to the approach to things, just as the landscape bathed in light suggests a sense of loss and rediscovery, of clarity and shadow, where being seems to hide and reveal itself at the same time. The earth (‘absolute soil’) is endowed with the capacity to reveal the valences of interiority, but also the markers of an itinerary of sacrificial knowledge and the poem’s condition of saying and at the same time hiding in its words an essential silence. The images of the desert, with its limpid, enveloping forms, appear as mirrors of the soul, experiences of the instant and detachments from the self, to reach a deeper attachment to nature, to the elements, to the voids and the fulls in the fabric of the world, whose identity seems to be made up of glimpses of otherness, of words, colours and forms, like the intense luminosity of a reflecting and encompassing gaze.