Not many poets possess the visionary bravura and depth, the richness of color and form, as the Cuban poet María Elena Blanco unfolds in "Sobresalto al vacío." Apart from the diverse trends and schools from Lezama's Baroque to Nicanor Parra's anti-poetry, which have shaped Spanish-language poetry over the past decades—directions and schools that María Elena Blanco ironically refers to as the "Beyond Canon"—she simultaneously reinvents these in textual arrangements where echoes, inner resonances, and counterpoints achieve a virtuosity bordering on mastery, without ever falling into the trap of abstraction. On the contrary, it is poetry that is brimming with the facts of reality, the blood of things and events. The lyricism of María Elena Blanco moves across various physical and spiritual landscapes.