In Contra Corvos, Elisa Costa Pinto writes from a place of attentiveness to the world, to memory, and to the wounded body of the present. The poems arise from the clash between the enduring beauty of the landscape, of childhood, and of art, and the shadow that casts itself over our times: war, violence, erasure, loss. Amidst birds, trees, cities, mothers, houses and images from art history, the poetic voice rejects indifference. Each poem is a gesture of vigilance, a way of ‘washing one’s eyes’ without closing them to the horror. The word becomes a place of ethical resistance, but also of tenderness, of listening, of restoring what is possible. Structured in four movements – Contra Corvos, Irmã de Ícaro, Tempus Fugit and Ut Pictura Poesis – this book constructs an intense dialogue between poetry, painting, individual memory and collective responsibility. Against the crows that peck at the eyes of the world, these poems insist on light, even when fragile, even when threatened. This is a book of poetic maturity, where clear and rigorous language sustains one of the central questions of our time: how to continue to see, to feel and to speak, without yielding to complicit silence.