Flores de fuego

Like those of his first installment, with which Victoria León won the Hermanos Machado Ibero-American Poetry Prize, the poems of Flores de fuego, written between 2018 and 2022, are based on poetics and aesthetic conceptions based on classicism and natural language. , rehearsing new forms and tones. Divided into four sections, which dialogue with each other or with readings by Cioran (to whom the metaphor of the title is due), Lucretius, Nietzsche, Goethe, Marco Aurelio, Zweig, Keats, Breton, Foscolo or Cernuda, the book has loneliness as great common theme: loneliness as a human destiny, but also as a lighthouse from which poetry is born and radiates to illuminate us and build paradoxical bridges with life, or as a search for the soul of the world in the Platonic sense, necessary to create and live fully . The first part, inspired by Mahler's Seventh Symphony, is made up of poems that deal with the night as a symbol of existence, understood as a path of exploration and knowledge. The second, written during the pandemic confinement, deals with the dialectic of memory and oblivion, presence and absence, the flight inwards and the serene renunciation of what ends, but also the need to meet others. The third is a look at the past, a verification of the heterogeneous and changing identity, a search for one's own traces through affection and friendship, restored unity and plenitude. The final poems seek a celebratory poetry that finds in love and desire another name for faith and hope.