This concentrated, poetic novella follows an elderly enslaved man who flees a plantation in Martinique while his master and a mastiff pursue him. It faces the violence of colonial slavery directly, yet through the forest's strange vitality and a mythic narrative voice it brings freedom's impulse and human dignity into focus.

What lies beyond the escape is not only freedom; the forest itself begins to speak of memory and resistance.

Built around the idea of death as a lifelong seduction, this minimal poetry collection stares straight at the boundary between life and death. Its concise yet densely charged language carries sensuality, spirituality, and playfulness at once, bringing Hilda Hilst's poetic core vividly into view.

Death is not an endpoint here; it becomes a presence that the poems keep calling back.