Deliberately, the shadows
displace the light as they spread
like words orphaned
on some line of poetry.

- Arturo Gutiérrez Plaza

“This book’s title suggests a vocation, an attitude toward language, and oblique reflections that address human fate as much as the most tangible transformations of the poet’s country. This discreet phenomenology is hemmed in by pathos—passion and sickness—and by a rigorous watchfulness.”

- Miguel Gomes