One Day in the Secret Forest of Words

Poetry. Translated from the Spanish by Richard Sturgess. Vicente Valero is a writer of great metaphysical profundity but a realist withal not abstract. He has the privilege of observing both death and love.--Octavio Paz. The experience of ONE DAY IN THE SECRET FOREST OF WORDS is without any doubt or blandishment an experience of rapport with the observable and of openness to its profound import.--Carlos Andrés Landázuri Súarez. This writing offers an animism that refuses animism a humanism that refuses humanism a spirituality that rejects the self-preening moral high ground--but also an astonishment that refuses any limitations on the realm of astonishment.--Leonard Schwartz