Erotic Tongue: Poetic Anthology for Making Love

“Poetry not only sings of desire. It is desire itself that is expressed and made into words through poetry.” With this forceful assertion, the Colombian poet Juan Gustavo Cobo Borda begins his introduction to this fascinating anthology, titled with undeniable success Erotic Language, which contains a significant selection of amatory poems in Spanish, that language that, from its very origin, a thousand years ago, , has an expressive charge of unparalleled intensity. After all, as the anthologist explains, are the first phrases in Spanish glosses? of the various kinds of fornication?, based on a Latin text, and destined for a penitential. Therefore, eroticism is not a feeling foreign to our language. Maybe no language. The incessant whirl of desire, which crowds the senses to gallop into expression, finds no dams nor can it be silenced in any case. That is why they appear here from the inspired version of the Song of Songs made by Brother Luis de León in eighth rhyme, to the verses of the new generations of Latin American and Spanish poets, passing through the classic romances and anonymous ones, the golden age, the romantic poets and the iconoclastic contributions of the 20th century.