Manuel Vilas

The reader holds in their hands the collected poetry of Manuel Vilas (Barbastro, Huesca, 1962), covering a period from 1980 to 2018. Gathered here are all of the author’s essential books.

This complete edition of his poetry, introduced by the poet himself, includes major new material, such as two sections of previously unpublished poems: Avenida de Madrid, which brings together poems written in the early years of the twenty-first century, and Materia, which contains the poem Creo, published here in book form for the first time.

Another remarkable feature of this volume is the thorough revision of Vilas’s early period, including poems written in 1980 from a little-known collection entitled El sauce (The Willow), composed when the poet was seventeen, along with a carefully revised edition of his poetry up to 1998.

This is the definitive edition of one of the most important, innovative, and essential poets writing today in Spanish—a poet who, like no other, has managed to reflect the reality of our world and to give poetry back to the people.