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Gabriele Tinti’s Hungry Ghosts is a cycle of 51 poems written in collaboration with the photographer Roger Ballen, whose photographic negatives are reproduced in the book. The imag

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CEBRASPE (CESPE) · 2025

Gabriele Tinti’s Hungry Ghosts is a cycle of 51 poems written in collaboration with the photographer Roger Ballen, whose photographic negatives are reproduced in the book. The images are mostly terrifying, in keeping with the otherworldly inclination of the poems. This bilingual edition includes Tinti’s original Italian poems with English translations by David Graham, interspersed with Greek lines taken from inscriptions found on archaeological objects and from ancient Greek texts.

The book is inspired by the Petavatthu, a Theravada Buddhist scripture that includes stories about the realm of the “hungry ghosts,” a category of supernatural beings ubiquitous in East and South Asian religions, with section headings such as “Abandoned Ghosts,” “Protectors,” “Guardians,” and “Hungry Ghosts.” The poems a requites hort and try to emulate the obscure, esoteric quality of scriptural language, though they struggle, at times, under the weight of too many venerable references drawn from both Buddhist and Greek traditions.

Internet: <poetryfoundation.org> (adapted).

About the linguistic and lexical features of the preceding text, judge the follow item.

The phrase “emulate the obscure, esoteric quality” (last sentence of the second paragraph) represents an incorrect or awkward collocation in English.
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Comentário: A expressão “emulate the obscure, esoteric quality” está correta em inglês, uma vez que o verbo "emulate" é frequentemente utilizado para descrever a ação de imitar ou tentar igualar características de algo que é considerado admirável ou respeitável. As palavras “obscure” e “esoteric” são apropriadas para descrever qualidades que não são facilmente compreendidas ou que são acessíveis apenas a um grupo restrito de pessoas, o que se alinha bem ao contexto das poesias que buscam refletir uma linguagem densa e complexa. Portanto, a collocação é adequada e não apresenta erros.

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