Fierce Times can be read as an intimate and essential diary of a country crumbling. From everyday anecdotes to political analysis, with lucidity but also with humor and tenderness, Padrón investigates and records reality, always seeking to tell it…

"In Leonardo Padrón's poetry, the unexpected reigns. The reader goes from surprise to surprise, dazzled by the appearances of the adjective "unusual" in verse that is also unusual, but still constrained by speech. With him, metaphor is dressed for a…