Amaia Iturbide brings you a moment from hermetism and uncryptic poetry to lightness – On both sides of the ladder (1986), Itzulbidea (1992), Classrooms and fields (1994), Mute flowers and juice marriage (2006). Nor could we accurately define the hours of the last Maze (2008), so that we could not summarize so many poetry. A classic form, references to art, a slow pace... Iturbide will get you in a smooth way, but little by little you will see how the language is screwing, the lines full of color, the head of images: “At Stanley Kubrick they showed A clockwork orange,/ kiosk collages/ banner drills or/ street museums/ occupied a space of their own.” This is the style of Iturbide, sometimes swollen, sometimes pop, that has invented a special place of its own to use imagination freely.

The main tool for the poem has been the symbol. The writer himself also says what the type of symbolism is, derived from reality: “It goes from an unlimited or distant initial symbolism to a day-to-day symbolism. Symbolisms are also part of reality.” It is

necessary, therefore, to go beyond and beyond the strict sense of the word, to reach a total understanding of its meaning. It is the enemy of the visible and the definition of the vocabulary when the traces of the scenario begin, contrary to the false sensibility, which overcomes the objective description. Iturbide has used poetic language as a language of knowledge in search of confusion and new sensations: “I have apple in the market/ in the patio shield/ behind

the empty mask.” Reading must also be open and without prejudice. Forget the real way of things, pay attention to the poet, enter with him into the land that promises another logic that has no logic. Only thus can you touch you, that you approach the book, the subconscious of the writer. Sometimes you will discover the beauty of the Parnaso and other times, through the artificial and the ugly, an impossible futuristic world. If we said that the time of the maze was advisable, we found it even thinner when the footprints of the stage begin. They have in common the ability to express strong ideas with seemingly smooth words, the tendency to metaphysics, the use of humour and the mastery of rhythm, but on this occasion the Bilbaite writer has taken a step forward, maintaining the course.