Mundo

The poems of Mundo, the most recent book by Ana Luísa Amaral, turn the everyday into universal and take us into the smallest and most humble aspects of this Earth: a bee, a centipede, a cigarette, a needle, a horse... And in that universe of the insignificant, a cloak of magic covers everything: the tables speak, the insects have an inner life as complex as the human one, the classic books converse with each other, universal history is just a cloud that vanishes. But in that magical world -ours- there are also injustices and pain, and Amaral is not indifferent to it. She speaks, with delicacy and great respect, of the dispossessed, of modern slavery, of discrimination based on the color of our skin, of our indifference to the misery that destroys us all. With the strength of someone who knows that words have the power to create and modify the world, the poems in this book sow in us, with each syllable, the seed of an indestructible forest of hope and lucidity.