For forty years, every May, verses have taken over the Palau de la Música Catalana for a night "as a gesture of delicate insurrection." Maria Callís and Manuel Forcano, directors of the Barcelona Poetry Festival, recall this in the prologue to the book that those attending the recital, punctuated by the sound and light landscapes curated by Clara Aguilar, took home after an intense hour and a half in which they were able to delve into the subtle voice of the Romanian. Ana Blandiana, in the irony of the Georgian Shota Iatashvili and also in the enigmatic Anne Carson, one of the great attractions of the evening, who has read a dozen prose poems from the distant Short talks (1992).