Bleja dignity the word redeemer

Lucía Palliser Santana is one of the most dynamic Menorcan poets on the current scene. In addition to writing poetry and publishing magnificent books such as Every vein of life (Stonberg, 2020), she is a glossator, she collaborates with the magazine Naked, is a member of Soca de Mots and is associated with the organizing team of the Illanvers and Vershivern festivals. Her latest literary creation was recently published at the New Moll Publishing House: Ombudsman, a set of eight lyrical suites that explore the pain of heartbreak from different perspectives and with varied expressive resources. For example, the first part, "Vulnerability," adopts a confessional tone that helps establish the theme and tone; the second, "Do Minor," is propelled by musical themes that allow the author to create short rhythmic compositions with strict meter and rhyme; the third, "Provisionality," uses typographical emphasis in the style of Salvat-Papasseit to transform some words into visceral screams. The central section gives the volume its title and thus unfolds an (anti)epic chant in the manner of an almost Homeric lament. The subsequent segments ('Rescue', 'Evidence', 'Reverse' and 'Farewell') are variations on the same ideal of overcoming psycho-emotional conflict that is presented in pages that present a journey that goes from despair to hope.

Carl Gustav Jung spoke of the alchemy of writing, which is capable of transforming shit into gold. Lucía Palliser Santana publicly shares her wound and turns it into a literary palace or, in more humble terms, into a shelter. But she does not do so in the prosaic, and in certain places pathetic, manner of Joan Margarit, who made a constellation of life's undeniable duels. The author's technique Ombudsman It is more elaborate. In the epilogue, Sònia Moll explains that we are faced with a (self-)defense that, furthermore, is an open door in the raw, inviting an empathetic approach, since all human beings have gone through the stark process described in the work. Carles Moll's engravings, delicate and gruesome at the same time, not only illustrate the texts, they also accompany them with disturbing atmospheres.

While it is true that there is some fragment perhaps a little too emphatic, this fact does not cloud the spirit or the general quality of Ombudsman, a powerful collection of poems evidently written from the strictest need for explicitness that is at once a verbal healing based on neurolinguistic projection techniques, philosophical research, and also a compendium of readings, ranging from Sant Agustí to Alejandra Pizarnik, passing through Nostradamus references like Margarita Ballester. Depending on which writings, they are indeed redeeming.