Piedras

Description

The poems in this book seek a narrative—or the possibility of one—as if pursuing a story of which only fragments can be reached. They seem to take on temporary forms that become safe places from which to move forward, like stones—always different—on which to rest and find images.

Nature creates without stopping, arranging in the world distinct elements that coexist in greater tension or harmony. It also seems natural to establish relationships between them, to invent stories in order to understand them, to bring them closer. The disappearance of people in a city, wandering along a beach in search of luck, the creation of a sea monster, the origin of lightning.

The beginning of an idea may lie in one poem and grow in another; an image may appear for the first time and its reverse emerge further along, as part of a system of displaced conversations. There is something in the organization of fantasy that, rather than hiding, seeks to find its place—or a kind of redemption.