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"In Gustavo Yuste's new book of poetry, the poems have a cruder approach, but with the melancholy that characterizes his verses; Gustavo engages head-on with loss, absence, and memory. A few years ago, in an interview (or an intimate profile?), Gustavo said or asked himself: "Would I be the same person if my old man hadn't died? It's a counterfactual and meaningless question, but one I can't avoid... Am I talking to him through literature? Is this the conversation we never had, 15 years later?" The poems in El formol de la melancolía navigate in this sense, they engage in dialogue with that absence and begin (or try) to respond to what Gustavo senses and names: "... I don't know if I have a fixed destiny, I don't think so, but at least I have one certainty: thanks to writing I was able to continue talking to him, in my own way... in this fictitious dialogue." Fictional? Yuste continues to display the hallmark of his poetic work, that personal voice that surfs between metaphors and revelations, starting from small everyday details to reveal much more complex and profound conflicts and dilemmas" --
