In her paper, she lucidly combines the fi rst and last of these interests by inquiring into how the poetic practice of the poets of the Spanish 1950s’ generation was accompanied by, indeed inextricably mingled with, profound refl ections upon their use of language and its very role in their art. These compelling ‘meta textual musings’, as she calls them, are clearly much more than that: they are authentic and insightful theoretical meditations – genuine ‘poetics’, which were often appended to their artistic publications and which critics have actually often considered more interesting than that artistic production itself!