The coronavirus, the war in Ukraine, the economic crisis, technological and climate change… “Everything leads to great confusion, and the human being longs for clarity,” they defend from the Banco Santander Foundation, which now publishes ‘Twelve lyrics for a new world’, a book in which poetry becomes a way of reflection and also “balm” to face the concerns of the future.
“Poetry, more than ever, must be a bonfire that warms and illuminates us with its deepest flame from the song of life in all its infinity of nuances and forms,” they point out from the Foundation, which have brought together twelve renowned poets for this work, which they publish within their Fundamental Collection. Antonio Colinas, Antonio Lucas, Aurora Luque, Carlos Pardo, Chantal Maillard, Clara Janés, Fermín Herrero, Jorge Riechmann, Luisa Castro, Raquel Lanseros, Vanesa Pérez-Sauquillo and Vicente Gallego make up this “flock of nightingales” that sign these unpublished songs. To them is added the epilogue of the poet, writer and university professor José María Parreño, who elaborates a lyrical essay that illuminates the destruction of the bond that makes the human being part of nature.
Each author has expressed their concerns and impressions about the current situation and the future that awaits us. “There are no two equal poems, since there are no two equal poets,” they point out. “The reader will find everything from a tribute to Einstein’s centenary to optimistic conceptions about the moment in which we live and what is to come, leaving melancholy aside.”
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