Poems stir restlessly on the pages of books because what their stories, metaphors, and rhythms aspire to is to return to the air from which they come. Poems, even the most metaphysical and image-less ones, are marked in the air (vignettes, strokes, writings, edges), but few people realize this. Laura Pérez Vernetti, who does know this, has chosen a few poems to free them from their cages and return them to the air. Saying air means a generous gaze, transfigured eyes, ultrasensitive perception. Poems suddenly made flesh and inhabitable. So much magic and so much love.
With graphic versions of poems by Jesús Aguado, Isabel Bono, Agustín Calvo Galán, José Ángel Cilleruelo, Luis Alberto de Cuenca, Javier Fernández, Menchu Gutiérrez, Aurora Luque, Julia Otxoa, José Luis Piquero, Esther Ramón, and Miriam Reyes.
