Strangely Happy
Joan Margarit is one of Spain's major modern writers. Born in 1938, he worked as an architect and first published his work in Spanish, but for the past three decades he has become known for his mastery of the Catalan language and is now arguably Spain's most widely acclaimed contemporary poet. In writing stripped of all inessentials, and in the company of the dead, Joan Margarit confronts old age and his mortality in poems that move us with their harsh, poignant music. His poetry confronts the worst that life can offer us, yet what lingers in the mind is its warmth and humanity.
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Weitere Autoren: Crowe, Anna (Übers.)
- ISBN: 978-1-85224-893-2
- EAN: 9781852248932
- Produktnummer: 10682983
- Verlag: Bloodaxe Books Ltd
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2011
- Seitenangabe: 144 S.
- Masse: H21.6 cm x B13.8 cm x D1.3 cm 254 g
- Gewicht: 254
- Sonstiges: General (US: Trade)
Über den Autor
Joan Margarit was born in 1938 in Sanauja, La Segarra region, in Catalonia. He is an architect, and from 1968 until his retirement was also Professor of Structural Calculations at Barcelona's Technical School of Architecture. He first published poetry in Spanish, in 1963 and 1965, but after a silence of ten years switched to writing and publishing in Catalan. From 1980 he began to establish his reputation as a leading Catalan poet. As well as publishing many collections in Catalan, he has translated most of his own books into Spanish. Tugs in the Fog: Selected Poems (Bloodaxe Books, 2006), the first translation into English of his Catalan poetry, was a Poetry Book Society Recommended Translation. Strangely Happy, a selection of his later poems, also translated by Anna Crowe, is published by Bloodaxe in 2011.
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