Las sirenas de abajo

The verses of Aurora Luque, "the most Greek of our modern writers" in the eyes of Jaime Siles, are based on an affinity with the classical tradition that allows her to poeticise the concerns of our time with extraordinary sensitivity and to unite us with the whole of humanity. From the early poems of Hiperiónida (1981) to the celebrated verses of "Un número finito de veranos" (2021), winner of the National Poetry Prize 2022, the hymn to the culture and life of the Mediterranean, hedonism as a response to finitude, the exaltation of the senses and the exaltation of the senses, and the exaltation of the human being as a whole, the exaltation of the senses and the cultivation of the spirit are some of the coves where the "solar poetics" that celebrates life, fragile but plethoric, and its ambivalent offerings, beauty, friendship, desire, as well as the unbribable autonomy of poetry, anchors. Like "Icarus' comrade", for twenty years the poet has taken to the skies in search of "that splendour of experience" that allows us to know we are alive, and her poetry is brought together in this edition.