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The Catalan PoemsPere GimferrerTranslated by Adrian Nathan West
Categories: 20th Century, 21st Century, Spanish and Catalan, Translation
Imprint: Carcanet Poetry Publisher: Carcanet Press Available as: Paperback (140 pages) (Pub. Apr 2019) 9781784107673 £14.99 £13.49 eBook (EPUB) Needs ADE! (Pub. Apr 2019) 9781784107680 £11.99 £10.79 To use the EPUB version, you will need to have Adobe Digital Editions (ADE) installed on your device. You can find out more at https://www.adobe.com/uk/solutions/ebook/digital-editions.html. Please do not purchase this version if you do not have and are not prepared to install, Adobe Digital Editions.
Longlisted for the Best Translated Book Award 2020 Spain’s greatest living poet, Pere Gimferrer (b.1945) has written more than thirty books spanning verse, fiction, essay, and criticism. His earliest writings appeared in Spanish. In 1970 he began publishing in Catalan, and has alternated between the two languages since (with occasional forays into French and Italian). The present collection, the first book-length publication of Gimferrer’s Catalan poetry in English, brings together work from all phases of his career. His poetry is a marvel of syncretism: Billie Holiday, the medieval polymath Ramon Llull, Ezra Pound, and the artist Tàpies all appear in his pages. His style draws equally on modernism, on Galician-Portuguese love lyrics, on Góngora and on the Valencian metaphysical poet Ausiàs March. Rounding out the volume is a selection from the Dietari, an artistic diary that outlines his poetics and his sense of the artist’s vocation through a series of meditations on Casanova, Octavio Paz and others.
Awards won by Pere Gimferrer
Long-listed, 2020 Best Translated Book Award (The Catalan Poems)
'Gimferrer lives in and for poetry... His virtuosity shows he is capable of renewal and change without repudiating himself. Few authors can manage such breadth and depth.'
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