La luz más quieta

In one of the poems from his previous installment, Tono menor, Antonio Cáceres pointed to simplicity and clarity of expression as the aesthetic vocation of his poetry. Without losing the restrained manner that is its own, a good part of the poems in La luz más stilla -distributed in three sections: the one that titles the book, "La lechuza de Minerva" and "Luna pensativa"- are revealed from a dreamlike waking state that obscures its immediate significance. This incursion is announced by the two verses that, like a title page, open the collection of poems: "Inside the lyrics, inside, / the one that is said in the dream." Some poems seem to come from sleep or semi-conscious wakefulness in which the tenuous line of consciousness is blurred. When it gets erased, even the exercise of automatic writing -case of the final poem, a tribute to Góngora and his Third Solitude, never written-, a counterpoint of style arises that, without becoming hermetic, becomes less evident for the reader. Other poems rehearse the song and the elegy, present in all of Cáceres's work, together with more narrative or culturally inspired compositions. The diversity of themes and tones is also adjusted by the metrical variety of a poetry that leans naturally to the lower register of conversation and confidence. Through his experience and that of others, the author traces a sentimental biography of which the poem is often an objective correlate.