David Huerta (1949–2022) practiced with intense maturity a profession that makes no distinction between the troubles of life and the quotations of art, between the great words of specialists and the petty words of our own species, and whose decades pass with the speed of a break in a verse or a page turn. Huerta is a poet who decided to approach "to see the heart of these matters" without ever losing his "young animal's smile." These pages, which capture half a century of writing, from The Garden of Light (1972) to The Wind on the Platform (2022), including Version (1978), Incurable (1987), and The Glass on the Beach (2019), are the best introduction to the work of one of the greatest poets of our language.

Like José Lezama Lima, who, from Death of Narcissus to Fragmentosa, his magnetism was expressed with a unique voice, David Huerta did so with a voice unlike any other in our poetry. As with great composers and great performers, his music and his instrument will always have an unmistakable sound.