Una mirada total sobre la poética actual y eterna de Aurora Luque

Abstract

The publication of Aurora Luque’s complete poetry in one volume (Las sirenas de abajo. Poesía reunida, 2023) invites us to analyze her poetic work as a whole. Accepting the invitation, this article argues that since their beginning the poetics of Aurora Luque (Almería, 1962) have woven a network of shared key references mentioned in the titles of some of her books: Carpe noctem (1994), Carpe mare (1996), Carpe verbum (2004), and Carpe amorem (2007, 2021), that is “seize the night,” “seize the sea,” “seize the word,” and “seize love.” In all these books (as in the rest of Luque’s poetic work, including her translations), the same appeal to joy and to the celebration of existence (her “solar poetics,” as the poet herself calls it) are present, with the word and song pitted against death. It is also interesting to note how Luque’s latest poetry collection (Un número finito de veranos, 2021) summarizes her entire work, as can be observed by analyzing her poems and linking them to the rest of her poetry. Finally, the article explains the symbolism of Aurora Luque’s own name, and how it implies her poetic destiny.