Peces del aire altísimo has as its main proposal the idea that poetry, as a vital drive and ultimate vocation of a life, is not restricted exclusively to the texts of those who build it with their incessant work. On the contrary, this inclination for the construction of new corridors and rooms of our home, which is language, extends into the daily life of every poet. Gilberto Owen, Carlos Pellicer, Luis Cernuda, Rubén Bonifaz Núño, Alí ​​Chumacero and Efraín Huerta, are some of the poets whose life and work are linked by Vicente Quirarte in this book, to show that daily choices, their own customs and The poet's obsessions, as well as his vices and benefits, are not only inexorable consequence of his personality, but extensions of his literary work; enlargements of the prodigious worlds that with his pen they built. Thanks to the erudition of the committed and passionate reader, but also to the closeness and intimacy of his friend, Quirarte offers myriad portraits of characters whose words have already found their place as the pinnacles of Mexican letters.