Related FCAYC: Fire the thirst. María Sánchez

A body inhabits a place: a body with its circumstances and its history, in a place also with its circumstances, also with its history. That place is not a set, because it has the life of ghosts and shooting stars, the drought, the grass, a herd of goats, the traces left on the earth by everything that also was. In the poems of Fuego la sed, bodies and places take the floor, yes, to tell us the story of a danger: the one that stalks a world - ours - that is dying out. María Sánchez has written a militantly political, militantly lyrical book about our relationship with our environment: about the way in which human decisions affect the course of a stream or the flight of a bird, about the forgetfulness by which we impose ourselves on the territory, and erase the possibility of other experiences.

The publication of Cuaderno de campo, María Sánchez's first book of poems, was a revolution in our literature: a vision of the rural environment far removed from stereotypes, which opened up new paths and raised a debate. In times of climatic emergency, Fuego la sed widens the conversation, reflects and includes us, appeals to listening for self-knowledge. Beautiful and subtle, at the same time resounding and powerful, in Fuego la sed speak those of us who have insisted on never hearing.