in search of volunteers for the
uleo Harkaitz Cano
Susa, 2023

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Wolves walk sideways and have a howl, a way to call the group. Harkaitz Cano (Lasarte-Oria, 1975) recently published an ulu in search of volunteers for the ulu (Susa, 2023), which calls the reader and all those who bring these lines together, leaving a few in their warm state.

“Less bad / nobody / doesn’t listen to poets.” The back cover of the book is a clear declaration of intent, a measure to liberate in some way the responsibilities that are attributable to it or the recognition of licenses adoptadas.Un year after the publication of the collection of soneses "Susa, 2022), half of the joy (Susa, 2022) rejects the forms and measures established then in writing and, as the Cano himself confesses, explores the limits of poetry. In it we can find lists and choruses, specific errors, poems from the bottom up, cured without using words, that fulfill the intentions rejected, with omissions and writings without pressing the enter button.

The 43 poems that make up the book are divided into four sections. Portraits predominate in the National Portrait Gallery section, adapted to numerous plans. In addition to serving to analyze the society and the current way of life, those who speak of writing and authorship draw attention: humor and irony are an invitation to reflection n.En the Book of Prayers section draws attention, following the formal plurality cited, the conversations between some texts and others: those who speak of the bird turned into a hymn in our country stand out. As the title itself has announced, the Book of Lists section in general contains lists that, as Eco blinks, have been elaborated as “everything that our supposed sense gives for good / wanting to fit”. Finally, the Claretian Laboratory (1) is a section composed of a single extensive poem, which also includes the first considerations of several authors and the “second hand reflections”.

It is about envy waiting for someone to have them: a challenge or a proposal; after all, a howl. We already know about metalworking, but is there a better way to think than to do poetry?