Prayers, evocations, supplications, observations. Short, concise poems; some of two lines, not a few of them less than half a dozen words. Blank verse, total absence of rhyme and any formal artifice that could please, anesthetize, the reader. Flashes, sudden moments of illumination; words, sometimes, almost uttered in the middle of a sigh; thoughts that have occurred to the poet and that he has written down in his notebook. A brevity that has nothing to do with the nomic or aphoristic. Book crossed all over by a serene melancholy, "Tiempo Naufragado" is just, almost nothing, a poetic reminder and an excellent introduction to the work of a leading contemporary poet.