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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 word “otherworldly” (second sentence of the first paragraph) is a synonym for abstract.
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Comentário: A palavra “otherworldly” refere-se a algo que está além do mundo físico, muitas vezes associado ao sobrenatural ou ao espiritual. Por outro lado, “abstract” diz respeito a conceitos que não têm uma representação física concreta, mas não necessariamente envolvem aspectos sobrenaturais ou espirituais. Portanto, embora existam algumas semelhanças entre os dois termos, eles não são sinônimos, pois “otherworldly” carrega uma conotação mais específica relacionada ao que está além da realidade comum. Assim, a afirmação de que “otherworldly” é sinônimo de “abstract” está incorreta.

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