Singbarer Rest

2020 – 2021

«How can we read an already burned page of a burning book – writes Jabés – if not by resorting to the memory of fire?»
A word that is reborn from its own ashes to burn again. Incessant memory, residue or singable remainder: “Singbarer Rest”, in Paul Celan’s expression. For, in short, every book must burn, be burned, leave only a residue of fire.

Remain
In what remains
After the fire,
Residue, alone
Root of the singable.

José Ángel Valente