En el lugar del ciervo

In In the Deer's Place, Nelson Gudín Benítez writes poems in which memory isn't a refuge but a landscape that keeps slipping away. His clear voice, with its almost craftsmanlike precision, turns childhood, the island, time and the elements into images that resonate. A child who never returns, a house in the rain, a road that always brings you back, a city that lights up and goes dark, a deer pursued by the world's gaze: the impulse to live.

These contemporary Cuban poems don't go for easy impact. They move in brief jolts, through seemingly small scenes that raise big questions. Tenderness sits alongside vulnerability, lucidity alongside doubt. There is also a keen awareness of what we lose when the noise of the present threatens to erase what matters most. In the intimacy of each poem, you recognise your own absences and see the everyday in a new light.

For anyone who loves poetry that makes you think as much as it moves you. Step into this book and discover why sometimes we're all in the deer's place.