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Raquel Santanera
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Mechanics
When you sing in the night all the crickets come out to court and choirs of rheumatics and brutish bouncers measure their wheat with set squares. I am your chief, master of your guitar strings and your gypsy woman for all the days you need me to be. You have your bed just here next to you, there’s no need for them to know about it; the rooftiles on this ark shelter you… When you sing in the night every thunderstorm passes through your torn and clumsy flesh… I am your lover, your family doctor, mechanic to vedettes thrilled by every bolt as I turn on the machinery. When you sing in the night from within the power plant glows the Land of the Saints.
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Raquel Santanera (Manlleu, 1991) is a Catalan poet. She also works as a poetry curator and festival programmer in Catalonia, contributing to the development of contemporary poetic discourse through cultural coordination and literary programming. Her literary career began with the poetry collection Teologia poètica d’un sol ús (2015), which was awarded the Martí Dot Prize. This debut introduced Babaisme, a poetic approach aimed at creating a new mythology of the lyrical self — a thread that continues throughout her later collections: De robots i màquines o un nou tractat d’alquímia (Pollença Poetry Prize, 2017) and Reina de rates: crònica d’una època (Miquel Martí i Pol Poetry Prize, 2020). Her poems have been translated into French, Italian, Spanish, and English. She regularly performs at poetry recitals and has participated in numerous national and international poetry festivals.
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