The publication of Libro de Poemas (Book of Poems) in 1921 was also the result of this learning process, and of the author’s growing awareness that it was time to close a chapter in his life. The path he had set out on with Impresiones y Paisajes (1918), the fruit of his travels and studies with the teacher Martín Domínguez Berrueta, was gradually maturing, and he now needed to initiate a new phase—to close one door and open another. On 15 June of that year (the date that appears in the colophon) he was already drawn to new aesthetic adventures. The title itself alludes more to a diverse collection of poems born out of a learning process than to a unified oeuvre. In fact, when the editor García Maroto requested that each poem be dated under the title, this only served to highlight the lack of order, as the sequence does not even follow a chronological logic. The thematic links that arise between two or three of the pieces and that seem to point to some shared sense eventually fade in the midst of this disarray and the accompanying feeling of overarching sadness.