Strolling in Rome with Claudia is the Carnet de Voyage Pierre Toutain-Dorbec brings back from his sojourn in the Italian capital, about which he says: "The autumn 2015, spent in Rome, was a somewhat renaissance one for me. How good it was to stroll in Rome again, and at that time, with my wife!""There is a strange, countering tension within each of these poems, between feeling inelastic and liberated all in the same instance. I'm reminded of Eugenio Montale and Giuseppe Ungaretti, of their strict formalism and their earthbound stakes that open nevertheless into the imagined above and then again into the spheres of demons and saints." Christopher Hassett