Con el verde de mis sueños

In the Green of My Dreams is a poetry collection where intimacy becomes landscape and hope learns to breathe amid hardship. Ana Carenia Botello's voice is clear and musical. Her poems speak of love as it wears thin, of absence that won't let go, of wanting to flee and yet to stay. She evokes Cuba in all its depth: the city's salt, concrete and memory, the heart ebbing and flowing between guilt and faith.

Each poem opens a small door onto a bed, a suitcase, a mirror, a winter. From these, Botello shapes images of green, not as an easy promise but as a way to resist. They name what hurts without sacrificing tenderness. This is contemporary Cuban poetry for those who seek unadorned beauty, honest feeling and poems that quietly keep them company, like a lamp left on in the middle of the night.

If you love books you can read slowly, books that stay with you beyond the last page, you're in the right place. Step inside and let the green of these dreams light up your own.