Los planetas fantasma

After her brilliant debut with Girls always tell the truth, Rosa Berbel gives us her long-awaited new book, the confirmation of a great poet. Peering into a political and emotional abyss, the poems in Los planetas phantom relativize the perception of risk: the parties are over, the landscapes have become deserted and the limits of time and space have been distorted, but a utopian thrust flourishes in the ruins that calls to reinvent names, rites and natures. In astronomy, the concept of ghost planet designates a hypothetical celestial body that, despite being scientifically considered, is not visible through the usual observation instruments. This enigma is the starting point for a book that aspires to transfer a certain imaginary of terror and post-apocalyptic fiction to the framework of the poem, reflecting on how to integrate desire and beauty amid so much devastation, when ghosts are no longer so much fragments of the past as future impossibilities. Poetry makes new planets visible. Poetry invents them.