Cathedrals are born in the Sea celebrates 20 years of Gilda Nunes Barata's poetry with a bilingual collection of unpublished poems, which reflect the author's path in a voice that rises lyrically and confessionally. Professor Eduardo Lourenço wrote in the preface: «Like a winter peral, the author of this book raises her discourse to the heights of a cathedral, shooting a type of speed into an atom».