Elidio La Torre Lagares’s new poetry collection Aguacerando: mitologías domésticas de lo que nunca fuimos (Valparaíso Editores, 2025) recently won the Juan Felipe Herrera Best Poetry Book Award (Single Author–Spanish). Warm congratulations!
Aguacerando: mitologías domésticas de lo que nunca fuimos [Falling Rain: domestic mythologies of what we never were] is a work in which Elidio La Torre Lagares transforms the brute force of rain into a visceral and profound symbol. Its manifestation seems to flood the tangible, transforming into a metaphor for a truth that eludes reason: a truth felt, aching, intuited. Childhood, like the lost homeland, resonates like an unattainable echo, an origin that was never completely ours. Displacement, distilled in these verses, stands as a horizon from which we glimpse what María Zambrano would call “the open air of the soul,” a space of existential nakedness where the ephemeral and the eternal intertwine.
La Torre Lagares’s poetry mythologizes the domestic, approaching it as a form of primordial knowledge, a profound and original path toward the truth of being and the world. Aguacerando transports us through territories of memory and uprooting, where each poem explodes into powerful images that capture the fleeting and the eternal, the ordinary and the sublime. With a lyrical precision that both hurts and fascinates, La Torre Lagares shows how the downpour, a metaphor for what erodes and renews, tears apart the structures of reality to reveal the hidden: the echoes of what we never were.
Translated by Ivette Romero. See the original (in Spanish) at https://valparaisoediciones.es/tienda/poesia/907-455-aguacerando.html and https://librerialaberintopr.com/products/aguacerando-elidio-la-torre-lagares
Elidio La Torre Lagares’s new poetry collection Aguacerando: mitologías domésticas de lo que nunca fuimos (Valparaíso Editores, 2025) recently won the Juan Felipe Herrera Best Poetry Book Award (Single Author–Spanish). Warm congratulations! Aguacerando: mitologías domésticas de lo que nunca fuimos [Falling Rain: domestic mythologies of what we never were] is a work in which Elidio