Intuition (Spanish Edition)

A girl has a hunch: that she must, for example, travel to fall in love riding a comic book or a painting or a prehistoric language. A girl who travels through these pages, who speaks for them, and who is called the Hunch: also the Flower-eater, the Pearl-thief, or the Pitaya Girl. Hunch and nickname, noun and epithet: by active and passive means, passion. The poems of Hunch question love and language, and whether they are the same; how love comes together with love, and words with things. They approach it from the realm of fantasy, which Berta García Faet -- already one of our great poets today, a shining reference beyond generational issues and geographical barriers -- understands here as an oblique and dreamy dimension of philosophy. The methods are varied: you can skate through childhood, or put all the kissed boys since 1999 in the same room, review books whose titles change according to the day... and look for novels in etymologies, or animals in metaphors, or life in death, or truths in typographical errors. Hunch laments, doubts, celebrates, admits and does not admit, cuddles up, all at the same time: a triumph of imagination. "What a great poet Berta García Faet is" (Jorge Carrión). "A bustling and erudite intellect trapped in the thresholds of culture and literature as Gordian knots: intricate and elliptical" (Laurence Cotterell). "A project of linguistic rebellion, and certainly lucid" (Lucina Schell). "Love, energy, and eloquence. A sort of squaring the circle, an Iberian lynx. May it last us for many years" (Andrés Barba). TodosTusLibros Prize for Best Poetry Book 2023. Selected by Babelia (El País) as one of the best books of 2023, at number 12. Selected by Abril (El Periódico de España) as one of the four best poetry books of 2023. Selected by Revista Nubeo as one of the top 20 books of 2023. Selected by the Letras Corsarias bookstore as one of the poetry books of 2023.

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