Jorge López Llorente's poetry debut focuses on identity, in both love and loneliness, in its search and its deconstruction, with surrealist touches under the influence of Charles Baudelaire, Alejandra Pizarnik or Leopoldo María Panero. The poems' speakers go through mirrors looking for certainties and come out the other side as if through a blender, while their voices break in several fragments of themselves and others, including a nurse, Peter Pan and his shadow, and a vengeful mirror.
Among changes of voice in mixtures of free verse and metre, with and without rhyme, what persists is the idea that “we are the stories we tell, / half-glimpsed messages, left unread / or unanswered”.
Review and author interview in Altavoz Cultural: Jorge López Llorente speaks to us and entertains us as he speaks [...] with a spectacular insight.López Llorente has a gem through the looking-glass, just in the gap between literary non-fiction and the purest (and most purifying) fiction. His resources are near-boundless and his discourse's conviction is imposing. We cannot recommend 'Los ojos desdibujados' highly enough, with the discovery of this exciting author.
Review in Poémame: 'Los ojos desdibujados' is a very well-written poetry collection, with a great mastery of language and great depth. A book that opens up and closes in on itself, like eyes that open, look, and end up shut to see beyond.