A witch gave you a pair of legs
(and other things I won’t mention).
Satisfied with your new body, you set off
for dry land. It was August and nobody
was surprised to see you on the beach,
naked and smiling
Luis Alberto de Cuenca
A prolific, multifaceted writer and scholar, LUIS ALBERTO DE CUENCA possesses one of Spain’s most distinctive poetic voices. His poems, elegant yet devious, explore the expressive resources of the conversational register by resort to a variety of materials: classical antiquity, comic books, Hollywood movies, slang, urban culture. He received Spain’s National Poetry Prize in 2015 for Cuadernos de vacaciones.
