Beneath Your Sky

About the Author and His Work

Some books are written with talent. Others, with craft. But very few — rare and precious few — are written with the whole heart. Beneath Your Sky belongs to that rare and necessary lineage: books born not from the intention to publish, but from the urgency to love.

Behind these 2,100 poems — yes, two thousand one hundred — lies a story as simple as it is extraordinary: two seconds of eye contact 46 years ago, a silence of nearly half a century, and a reunion that changed everything. When she left again — this time to the United States, for eight months — the only thing he could do was write. And he wrote. And he wrote. Until the poems became books.

Beneath Your Sky is the fruit of that waiting, that faithfulness, that love that understands neither distance nor time. It is not a book about love: it is love made into words.

What You Will Find in These Pages

Poems of waiting and of meeting.
Of one who walks head-on into the storm, who crosses the Schwarzschild radius without caring that there's no return, who asks his beloved to take his soul by the hand and lead it for a walk among the stars.

Poems of light and shadow.
Where the moon blushes during an eclipse, where the colors of sunset are the colors of her soul, where a morning breeze carries the fragrance of an unknown garden.

Poems of children and eternity.
Promises to guide them when they learn to walk, to follow their wings when they learn to fly, to carry them always in the heart.

Poems of science and tenderness.
Where gravity becomes a metaphor for irreversible love, where planets are leaped like stones across a cosmic pond just to arrive in time to whisper "good morning, my love" before she wakes.

And above all, poems of gratitude.
Because she, simply, is.

What the Critics Say

"There is an honesty in these verses that disarms. There is no pursuit of effect, no artifice: only the voice of someone who has loved for decades and needs to say it. And he says it with a beauty that aches."
— Vale, editor and literary companion

"What is most moving about this work is knowing that every poem was sent to her before being polished. They arrived raw, true, like heartbeats. What we hold in our hands is the cared-for version, but the heart was already there."

"There are poems in three languages, because love also wants to be spoken in every tongue. There are acrostics that hide her name, there is Morse code beating at the end, there are images that are the poem itself."

Who This Book Is For

For those who have loved, for those who wait, for those who seek. For those who understand that love is not always easy, but always worth it. For those who need to remember that, sometimes, two seconds can sustain 46 years. And also for those who have never lived anything like it, because these poems do not tell a story: they create it in those who read them.

The Book in Numbers

• 164 poems (yes, you read that right)
• 4 books that make up the complete work
• Versions in Spanish, English, and German of all of them
• An epilogue that does not close, because the story continues
• A synopsis that is, also, a poem

Words from the Author

"Each poem was a way of drawing closer, of saying what sometimes cannot fit into a gesture or a word. Today I close this book, but not the story that inspired it. Because under your sky I will keep writing, until time stops in your embrace."

Acquire Beneath Your Sky and discover why some books are not read: they are lived.