Selected Poems

<p class=ql-align-justify>Luis Miguel Aguilar's work is a conversation between the past and the present between the educated and the lay person between useless details and essentials between erudite data and vital impulses. It is not a spur of the moment conversation but one that arises from the serenity of an extended long-term approach tying up loose ends and giving rise to complete complex and exalted theories.  -Juan Manuel Gómez </p><p class=ql-align-justify><br></p><p class=ql-align-justify><br></p><p class=ql-align-justify>Aguilar's poetry is unlike any other from Mexico in recent decades. Perhaps such a deliberately isolated position is even arrogant. It is a superior option in contemporary Mexican literature. -José Joaquín Blanco</p><p class=ql-align-justify><br></p><p class=ql-align-justify><br></p><p class=ql-align-justify>There are poets who are born mature broad-browed and clear of vision. Luis Miguel Aguilar is one of them. Each book is a gift full of surprises riddles and enigmas that invite the reader to reread piece by piece to savour them: there is an erudite cultured referential voice; then there is a more melodic simple voice that recites ballads and popular songs; and finally there is the intimate monologue which deals with the familiar <em>terroir</em> and tries to decipher the meaning of life with all its furies and its sorrows. -Arturo Dávila</p><p class=ql-align-justify><br></p><p><br></p><p>His is a work and a voice that as part of contemporary Mexican poetry gives it weight and horizons that cannot be refuted. As a reader I am grateful for this 'difficult minute' that Luis Miguel Aguilar has had to live through which he says is between the vehement minute and the cowardly minute adding: 'poetry is the difficult minute'. -José Javier Villarreal</p>