Drawing on comic books, cartoons, Hollywood movies, slang, urban culture, Cuenca's poems address happy and unhappy loves, fantasies and nightmares, the lineaments of big-city life.As one of Spain's most celebrated and influential poets, Luis Alberto de Cuenca has won a wide international following. His poems have been translated into several languages, among them French, German and Italian, but thus far his appearances in English have been rare.As a self-described "pop poet, " he writes accessible, elegant and witty poems, by turns upbeat and forlorn, that look at reality from refreshingly quirky angles. Drawing on comic books, cartoons, Hollywood movies, slang, urban culture, his poems address happy and unhappy loves, fantasies and nightmares, the lineaments of big-city life. Some of them, like "Breakfast" and "Unhappily Married, " have transcended literary circles to become part of the general culture. Translated by the Cuban-American writer Gustavo Pérez Firmat, MY FAVORITE MONSTER which gathers poems that span the whole of his career, is the first full-length collection of Cuenca's poetry in English.