The new book by Ramon Boixeda (Sant Julià de Vilatorta, 1981) is not religious or mystical poetry, but it moves within the coordinates established by the GenesisBetween the apple of original sin and the dust – "Dust you were and to dust you shall return" – of the expulsion from Paradise. In this sense, Boixeda writes about birth, death, and life – strenuous, precious, perplexing, incomprehensible – that lies in between. PulseThe Sant Cugat poetry prize in memory of Gabriel Ferrater brings to mind a phrase by Saul Bellow that says: "Existence is work."