The Phosphorescent Psalms (Spanish Edition)

This book should have been edited with a sash that mimicked Walt Whitman: whoever touches this book touches a woman. In Los salmos fosforitos fit the body and its voices, the legend and its emotion: interior invocations, exterior memories, pending tension. Words dragged by the canon. Traditions revisited to change them. Berta García Faet—one of the most prominent poets of the new generation—digs into the wound of literature, with an ambitious language work, breaking and recomposing the expression with a nuclear guide: the rereading of Trilce, a key work by César Vallejo. "This poetry waits for, encourages, and presupposes the intimacy of a hospitable dialogue with the reader. Its verbal freedom causes the poem to reverberate in this creative dialogue, build bridges with eloquent empathy, and develop a lively and innovative exchange of affectivity, humor, and mutual intelligence. Therefore, its remarkable repertoire of urban themes and its display of fresh worldliness, but its ability to establish a territory of communication that is not only due to the poet and the reader, both turned into actors of the discourse, but to the texture, quality, palpitation and fluency of mutual speech, which is the material that makes us more alive. The poem, thus, is a territory of speech, not only of oral speech but of its temporal, emotional, joyful, ironic, and lasting records" (Julio Ortega, El Boomeran).

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