In 1938 Lisbon, a newspaper culture editor named Pereira gradually awakens to his conscience through an encounter with a young activist.

In silence, conscience slowly finds its voice.

A poetry collection that turns memory, time, and fragments of ordinary life into verse through restrained, conversational language.

Each turn of thought remakes everyday detail as poetry.

A historical study that crosses textual and visual sources to examine how the stigmata of Saint Francis were narrated and constructed.

By setting sources and images side by side, the book follows the making of the stigmata legend.