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Of Death. Minimal Odes 3 Summers and absurdities of making artHilda Hilst If life is no more than a prolonged flirtation with death, then Hilda Hilst's Of Death. Minimal Odes is the true account of a lifelong seduction. It is at once both a reverie and reliquary, as the poet imagines and reimagines that most paradoxical moment of disintegration the corporeal flesh fusing with death's own dark corpus. With a visceral mystical poetic voice that is as teasingly unrestrained as it is intellectually sublime, Hilst's