One could say that the poetess makes her own, remedies and echoes the Italian poetic tradition in a spirit similar to that in which Jewish mysticism measured itself against the tradition of the sacred text: because the verbal matter, by now crystallised and suprapersonal, on which the poet works, inevitably inscribed in a given tradition, has the same absoluteness, the same translucent purity of a priori form, that the divine Word offers to the gaze of the interpreter and to the afflatus of the mystic (two tensions that often merge precisely in the veneration of the Word, in the celebration of creation as a rite, as a sacrifice - the Vedas say - that sacrifices itself).
The title of the book refers to a tradition of negative mysticism (for which the essence of the Divine can be expressed only by subtraction, exclusion, progressive elimination of every attribute, limit, determination, until the naked silence, the deserted quietness) that to some extent the Christian thought shares with the Jewish one (from the preface by Matteo Veronesi).