"Barefoot on the coals" is the poems of a mature poet, despite his youth. Juan Carlos Pajares has matured in these texts poignant humanity of confusion and bewilderment. It has aspects of surrealism and the "magical realism" in which fantasy and reality overlap, the sensuality expressed in the taste of words and the transcendence from existence. This is a book with its own discourse and large, beautifully illustrated by Amancio Gonzalez firm line, suggestive and subtle that makes a journey full of fine, at once grotesque beauty. An exquisite book, in short, a happy dialogue between figure and word.