The God's Orbit

<p><strong>Aura Christi</strong> is a romantic in classic disguise reminding one of Hölderlin Rilke or Emily Dickinson with a unique approach at the same time mythical and mystical to the eternal themes of poetry giving precedence to the individual’s inner and outer exile. While<strong> t</strong>he metonymic postmodern fad is of no interest to her she favors the hymnal and the solar with tragic twists with divine praise and self-dissolution clashing in a language purified of every redundancy but not lacking in allusive complexity.      </p><p>In <em>The God’s Orbit</em> her most successful collection of poetry Christi strikes the reader by her seraphic serenity inspired as she confesses by Fra Angelico’s mural paintings; hers is the attitude of someone who after crossing a Dantean bolgia (a hell's ditch) after vanquishing the monsters of the Inferno has left the drama of lucidity behind and reached a point in which reality though still uncontrollable has no more obscure niches. In naturally flowing lines full of a sober inner musicality that support a painful and clear vision of life the often inimical gods slowly turn into God the all-pacifying. The book is like a shout to the sky and divinity forceful convincing defying today’s society and pointing to where salvation might come from.</p>