Deseo de ser árbol is a brave and deeply honest collection of poems that explores desire as a force that runs through childhood, family, love, and the body. Ángelo Néstore, true to his poetics, delves into the places where this impulse is born and, at the same time, is tamed: the home, emotional bonds, the rules that try to set the limits of what is desirable.
From this tension, the book places us in a conflict that is also a possibility for liberation. The poems imagine other ways of enjoying, loving, and inhabiting one’s own body, oriented towards the collective, the organic, and the animal. Its pages open the space to think about communities of affection where other joys, other pleasures, and other ways of naming what we feel are possible.
Winner of the 5th ESPASAesPOESÍA Award 2022, Deseo de ser árbol confirms Ángelo Néstore as one of the most unique voices in contemporary poetry written in Spanish.
Ángelo Néstore (Lecce, 1986) is a poet, performer, and artist living in Málaga. He has published, among others, the poetry collections Actos impuros, Hágase mi voluntad and Deseo de ser árbol, recognized with awards such as the Hiperión, Emilio Prados, and the 5th ESPASAesPOESÍA Award. His poetic work appears in various anthologies and has been translated into several languages. Besides his work as a translator and teacher, he directs the poetry publishing house Letraversal and co-directs the Irreconciliables festival. Leche cruda is his first novel.
