Architects of the Imaginary / Arquitectos de lo imaginario

"Architects of the Imaginary by Marta López-Luaces is a book that alerts us to poetry's subversive power and the potential writing has to interrogate us. The collection begins with a lyric essay presented as a kind of ars poetica, closing with a question that is not rhetorical, but a way of taking the reader to the very edge of language to be mobilized: 'How can poetry exist in the face of terror?' Each poem here is a possible answer. The author trusts in the word's ability to repair the wo...