I wish to be a tree It is a courageous and profoundly honest collection of poems that explores desire as a force that permeates childhood, family, love, and the body. True to his poetic style, Ángelo Néstore delves into the places where this impulse is born and, at the same time, tamed: the home, emotional bonds, and the norms that attempt to define the limits of what is desirable.

From this tension, the book situates us within a conflict that is also a possibility for liberation. The poems imagine other ways of enjoying, loving, and inhabiting one's own body, oriented toward the collective, the organic, and the animal. Within its pages, space opens up to envision communities of affection where other forms of enjoyment, other pleasures, and other ways of naming what we feel are possible.

Winner of the 5th ESPASAesPOESÍA Prize 2022, I wish to be a tree confirms Ángelo Néstore as one of the most unique voices in contemporary poetry written in Spanish.

Angelo Nestor (Lecce, 1986) is a poet, performer, and artist based in Málaga. Among other works, he has published the poetry collections Impure acts, My will be done and I wish to be a treeHe has received awards such as the Hiperión, the Emilio Prados, and the V ESPASAesPOESÍA Prize. His poetry appears in various anthologies and has been translated into several languages. In addition to his work as a translator and teacher, he directs the poetry publishing house Letraversal and co-directs the Irreconciliables festival. Raw milk It is his first novel.