"370 pages in which we witness a coherent and tenacious process. Hundreds of poems like footprints, marking the path Raúl Quinto has travelled for over two decades. A path of constant innovation, where he never retraces his steps and along which he tries to find the way to express what he needs.
And it's fascinating to read all his poetic work in one sitting, placing it in the context of the novels and essays he was writing. Discovering, therefore, where the interest of this brilliant mind, this prodigy of emotion, lay. And witnessing how his poetry shapes the verse, content that forges the form and modifies it."
(Ahora qué leo, march 2026)
"'A Language Always on the Brink of Extinction', as its title suggests, represents a poetic manifesto, a reminder that language, like life, is about risk, transformation, and self-discovery. Raúl Quinto's poems are an invitation to open the infinite door that delves into who we are. The work of a lifetime."
Silvia López Ripoll (Zenda, March 2026)
"Under the title "A Language Always on the Brink of Extinction"—at once a personal motto and a metapoetic slogan—Raúl Quinto brings together nearly twenty-five years of writing. Although self-exegesis is often frowned upon and considered a thankless task for creators, the "precarious introduction" that opens the volume would save the lazy critic considerable effort, for these pages not only propose a guided tour of the author's works, but also suggest an immersion in his particular aesthetic universe: phrases like "infinite doors," "broken glass," or "dark communication" explain better than any interpretive paraphrase the disturbing effect of the violent upheavals and verbal frenzies contained in these verses."
Luis Bagué Quílez (infoLibre, March 2026)
“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decades, this edition includes the six books that followed, as well as an anthology of scattered poems and a previously unpublished short volume written during the days of lockdown, entitled Notebook of the Plague of 1348, which appears here for the first time.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.