CAMAGÜEY.— Sed Infinita (Infinite Thirst) is not the kind of book you simply read and place on a shelf. Even though some of its poems speak of forgetting, Camagüey-born author Jesús Aismar Zamora has crafted a volume you’ll want to keep close—one to share with those friends who carry impossible longings.

 Desire almost always walks hand in hand with absence—the kind that breaks you and rebuilds you, but never completely. Sometimes it leaves a crack through which that same absence slips back in, quietly laughing. It’s a cycle both beautiful and cruel, like unrequited love, like thirst that turns a sip of water into ecstasy.

 Yet emptiness becomes a question: how much do you really need to feel fulfilled? Meanwhile, the poem whispers: “Memory lingers in the dew / where your shadow returns to the pillow. / Silence rots within our flesh / and God murmurs: Let there be light.”

 The question remains open. It is up to you—the reader—to find the answer. What is certain, however, is that this collection grounds you, placing your feet firmly on the earth without dimming the light in your eyes or the emotion you carry within.

 First published in 2008 by Editorial Ácana, this poetry collection returns in 2026 under the same imprint, now edited by Evelin Queipo, with cover design by Maikel Sardaña. The result is a book that invites readers to claim each line as if it were a form of spiritual sustenance.

 Paradoxically, this book becomes your water—your beginning and your end. You’ll sense, as you read, that it was written in your own image and likeness.

 Don’t just take my word for it. But be warned: you’ll find yourself thirsting for literature until this title is in your hands. And even then, the thirst will remain—an infinite thirst.

* Member of children’s writing workshops who now dedicates a review to the book of one of her literary mentors. She is currently studying Communication at the University of Camagüey.

Translated by Linet Acuña Quilez