Rivers of Ink – María Oñorbe Gómez

Rivers of ink is a collection of poems in which the author shows all the wonder, the beauty, the poignant depth of a feeling, love, that gives life even when it causes pain, when it is tormented, unrequited, silent.
Each poem explores love by highlighting a different facet of it. The author, with her young age, shows us how loving can be easy and complicated at the same time. The poems follow the various steps of falling in love, each describing the emotional toll it takes.
The style is simple and delicate; the vocabulary bare and essential, devoid of elements that could shift the focus to anything other than the sentiment itself.
The presence of poems in Spanish makes the collection even more poignant and romantic, emphasising even more how love can be a feeling that can make one suffer but can also heal.

María Oñorbe (Madrid, 2009) is an avid reader and amateur writer with a serious basketball obsession. She loves literature and poetry, although she is also passionate about chemistry and technology-related stuff. When she was fifteen, she was lucky enough to live the American dream at Fox Valley Lutheran High School, in Appleton, Wisconsin, a place that will always be her second home. While studying there, she met all the people that inspired her to write Rivers of Ink, her first poetry book. Currently, she is studying her last year of secondary education, something that she combines with writing, books and sports, as well as running a bookstagram account in which she posts literary reviews and some of her poems.