Bululú

A poetic gaze that unites the scars of our collective history and the emotion of the most intimate experience.

Some poems are born in newsrooms, amid breaking news; others are wrapped in the warmth of home. Some speak of what it means to migrate; others of the severity of History. Most make no distinction between personal and collective experience.

In Bululú, Jaime Santirso —a correspondent in China and a witness to major events of the 21st century— offers poetry without barriers: everyday, precise, and social. With the same drive that shaped his reports from Wuhan, where he documented the world’s first lockdown during a pandemic, Santirso writes here about his mother, his grandparents, his travels, bonds, distance, memory, and his country.

Each poem is a delicate vignette that turns Bululú into an act of resistance: a poetry that observes, listens, and delights.