Taller de ausencias: Poesía escogida y obra nueva

Taller de ausencias by Imanol Gómez Martín is an extensive and pluralistic poetic work that brings together almost three decades of writing. His style combines surreal imagery with confessional lyricism, alternating free verses of a meditative tone with haikus of minimal precision. The themes range from memory and loss, dialogue with death, contemplation of nature, and reflections on art and poetic creation. The author displays a voice that embraces cultural and literary influences--from Celaya to Bonnefoy, from Panero to Eliot--but subjects them to a personal pulse. The structure is fragmentary and choral: diverse books and sections coexist without forcing a narrative thread, united by the same elegiac pulse. The lexicon is rich and changing, alternating between the colloquial and the cultured. There is a constant interplay between light and shadow, between sensory matter and philosophical abstraction. Nature becomes a mirror of interiority, and the sea, the bay, and the rain function as recurring motifs. It is a book that vindicates poetry as resistance to loss and as a workshop where meaning is repaired.