THE WORD THAT ROOTS
The second edition confirms the growth of the collection and the consolidation of Edicions Aïllades
In a literary panorama where poetry usually circulates in a fragmentary and rapid way, The Anxiety of the Rose It is presented as a book that requires pause, breathing and a reading that lets the word pass through. The appearance of his second edition It is not only an indicator of its good reception, but also a confirmation of the firm path that is being traced EDICIONS AÏLLADES, an editorial project with a clear Balearic vocation that is consolidated title after title.
The collection of poems opens with an image that already announces its intimate and sensorial tone.: «caress the rose with your fingers, leave freshness and amber color». From that first gesture, the author deploys a writing that advances in a linear manner, no sudden breaks, like a thread that guides the reader through three territories: The word, love and fragility. The first part, inhabit the word, explores language as a living space where light and shadow coexist. The word is refuge, but also hurt; It is a bird that wants to escape from the cage and an echo that insists on returning.
As the book progresses, the poetic voice delves into the intimacy of the body and memory. en Mapes d’A love, love appears like a geography that is explored with the senses: the skin, breathing, the light that comes through a window. The poem becomes an emotional map where each gesture is a territory and each caress, a border that opens. «Feeling the touch of your hand in mine is love», the author writes, and in that simplicity the strength of the book is condensed.
The third part, Like the deer, introduces a rawer look, closer to wear and tear and restlessness. Here poetry becomes a mode of resistance against time, facing loss and facing uncertainty. «Nothing changes and nothing is the same», says one of the poems, summarizing the paradox of adult life: the sensation of simultaneous permanence and transformation. The word, even so, It is still a place to stand.
The power of the collection of poems does not lie solely in the beauty of its images, but in the coherence of the route it proposes. Linear writing allows the reader to move forward smoothly, accompanying the poetic voice in an emotional journey that goes from the search for the word to the acceptance of its fragility. This narrative continuity, unusual in contemporary poetry, partly explains the impact of the book.
The publication of the second edition comes at a key moment for EDICIONS AÏLLADES, who continues to expand his poetry collection with an increasingly solid identity. The publisher, born with the desire to give a voice to authors linked to the Balearic Islands and to build its own literary space, with this title it confirms its growth and consolidation. The collection grows, diversifies and becomes a reference for those seeking poetry rooted in Mediterranean sensitivity.
definitely, The Anxiety of the Rose It is a book that leaves a mark. Roots in the tongue, in memory, in the light of the islands and in the intimacy of those who read it. Its second edition not only celebrates the success of a collection of poems, but also the strengthening of an editorial project that is committed to the word as a common territory.
18 Ones of the poet
Foreword: Snow Cardona Ribas
Illustrations: Joan Torres
ISBN: 978-84-125020-5-3
DL: i 129-2024
PVP: 14 €
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