Cómo se hace un libro de poemas: la forja de Sin miedo ni esperanza (2002), de Luis Alberto de Cuenca

This article explores the writing process of Luis Alberto de Cuenca’s Sin miedo ni esperanza (2002), examining the previous textual background that starts at El bosque (1997), a plaquette which we posit as the thematic and even structural basis of Sin miedo ni esperanza. After analyzing the four central poems of El bosque in detail, we explain how the individual message of these texts is transformed, thanks to the book’s disposition, into a general idea, a trajectory by the lyrical voice. Subsequently, we contrast this tone with Alicia’s (1999), a booklet that includes some of El bosque’s poems, but with omissions and additions, and, above all, a very different structure. Finally, we explain how Luis Alberto de Cuenca build Sin miedo ni esperanza combining the publications of 1997 and 1999, plus other texts, in an original final product that maintains the basic structure of El bosque.