The book contains the poems of the great South American poet and writer Mario Benedetti, translated for the first time into Italian by Francesco Luti.

The sense of pain and the aspiration for transcendence, the transfiguring power of art and the spiritual quest for a higher dimension of consciousness, love as a force capable of redeeming the drama of existence: these are universal themes that Hart Crane expresses with his intense voice in The Bridge (1930) and in The Broken Tower (1932).