La piel del cielo

To touch the sky on the beloved's body. To recognize the celestial constellations that have guided the history of humankind on the skin of the beloved, tracing the same starry paths with fingers stirred by love. From the personification of ancient myths and mysteries in figures symbolizing celestial constellations, to the remembrance of the form of love for the soul in the body of the other, expressed by the great Greek artists of antiquity, "The Skin of the Sky" delves into the keys to the adoration of the divine reflected in the body of the beloved. This splendid collection of poems by Magdalena Lasala—also a renowned author of historical novels—revives the symbolism of classical Greek art by equating celestial constellations with the paths of matter (the earth and the skin), building upon the beauty of the beloved a play of images and mythical meanings that evoke sensations of transcendence held in the unconscious. Poetry is a necessary support for building sculptures of words inspired by the love infused by the divine and grand intuited in the other, as in the sculptures of ancient classicism some Greek artists reflected the materiality of the emotion produced by what was captured in the beauty of the other.