Miedo

Fear is a universal emotion born from the deepest instinct for survival, an inner alarm that warns us of danger and makes us think, reflect before leaping into the void. It is in that fractured space we cling to when we feel vertigo that these poems by Rocío Rojas-Marcos take root. The first part of *Miedo* (Fear), which lends its title to the book, is made up of four sections where the overflowing word flows like the torrential current of a river. These are poems in which, looking at itself from a distance, the poetic voice moves away from the fears it needs to conjure, until reaching the last one where it leaps as if defending itself before a mirror of itself. The second part, “Gaman,” a Japanese word that names the capacity to endure difficulties without showing weakness, consists of thirty haikus written at the same time as the poems, as brief summaries and a final distillation of all the words spoken before.