(published in 2019, by Friends of Alice Publishing)
With silvertone photography, also by Isabel del Rio
A poet reminisces about the city of her birth, with stories and memories brought to life from both her past and the city’s past: a city at war; a declaration ending hostilities; the imaginary demise of the city’s magnificent art collection; forbidden books and student demonstrations; a breech birth and a funeral cortège; sex as it was, but also as it is not; memorable films and favourite pets; the fear of hell and the promise of heaven; an outdated and ill-fated way of life; words looking to be set to music, or scripted as prose, or moulded into poetry, or adapted to the demands of the times, with idiomatic speech taming our wildest dreams; e.g, Graphology. Thus, a retelling of the past becomes the foretelling of the future. A book in memory of the 80th anniversary of the end of the Spanish Civil War.
