“El dedo que se desliza / sobre la curva del alba / es un susurro de piel / que escribe en la sombra.”
Ambar Lapiedra (b. 1991, Granada) emerged from the post‑“Boom” generation of Spanish poets who, after the dominance of political and social discourse, turned toward interiority, the body, and the liminal spaces between self and other. Her early collections— Ecos de la carne (2014) and Luz de sombra (2017)—already displayed a fascination with sensory perception, but it is in Primer roce (2021), the anthology that houses “First Touch,” that Lapiedra crystallises a poetics of the epidermal. first touch ambar lapiedra