"Architects of the Imaginary by Marta López-Luaces is a book that alerts us to poetry's subversive power and the potential writing has to interrogate us. The collection begins with a lyric essay presented as a kind of ars poetica, closing with a question that is not rhetorical, but a way of taking the reader to the very edge of language to be mobilized: 'How can poetry exist in the face of terror?' Each poem here is a possible answer. The author trusts in the word's ability to repair the world through beauty and to translate as well into silences, forms, and metaphors, new means of seeing and figuring the real."
— Eugenia Straccali, author of Medusa
"In Marta López-Luaces's beautiful poetry again and again we find nature at the center of her imagination, but nature transformed into a metaphysical reality. The world and its phenomena are respected, named, and given their proper occupation. That is to say, in Architects of the Imaginary the world has found its true soul in these poems."
—Peter Gizzi, author of Now It's Dark
