Can Grande's castle

The volume presents four interrelated long poems written in a hybrid polyphonic prose that blends cadenced prose, vers libre, and lyric devices to evoke wartime experience by looking backward into earlier conflicts. A preface outlines the form and its rhythmic, rhyming, and contrapuntal techniques, while the poems deploy shifting voices, recurring images, maritime and castle motifs, and cross-cultural episodes to show how life and art persist amid violence. Through musical layering and historical reverie, the poems probe the tension between artistic withdrawal and civic engagement and consider how past narratives illuminate the moral complexities of the present.