“A Language Always on the Brink of Extinction” brings together all the poetry published to date by Raúl Quinto since the appearance of his first collection, “Grietas”, in 2002.
Spanning more than two decades, this edition includes the six books that followed, as well as an anthology of scattered poems and a previously unpublished short volume written during the days of lockdown, entitled Notebook of the Plague of 1348, which appears here for the first time.
His poetry, poised midway between the lyrical and what Luis Bagué has described as “discursive installations,” operates as a textual mechanism that highlights the ongoing conflict between reality and language, grounded in a commitment where aesthetic concerns and the exploration of their limits carry as much weight as the political or the existential.
Through a refined formal practice in constant transformation, the themes that run throughout his work are brought to the fore: history, power, miscommunication, identity, horror, and beauty—elements that have made him one of the most significant and widely recognized voices in Spanish poetry of this century.