Tugs in the Fog: Selected Poems - Brossura

Margarit, Joan

Brossura

ISBN 10: 1852247517 ISBN 13: 9781852247515

Casa editrice: Bloodaxe Books Ltd, 2006

Riassunto

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 has become known for his mastery of the Catalan language. The melancholy and candour of his poetry show his affinity with Thomas Hardy, whose work he has translated. In poems evoking the Spanish Civil War and its aftermath, the harshness of life in Barcelona under Franco, and grief at the death of a beloved handicapped daughter, Margarit reminds us that it is not death we have to understand but life. His poetry confronts the worst that life can throw at us, yet what lingers in the mind is its warmth and humanity.

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His work is time-haunted and death-haunted, but the poems also have a wonderful, clear, intelligent light in them. Margarit is perhaps firstly a love poet, and, readers can be assured, his loves are more often flesh and blood than steel. --Carol Rumens, The Guardian, Poem of the Week

I highly recommend the luminous, subtle i>Tugs in the Fog by the Catalan poet Joan Margarit, translated by Anna Crowe. The Spanish Civil War and its after effects, and the death of his handicapped daughter haunt poems which are nevertheless full of life. --Moniza Alvi, Poetry News

The language of Margarit's poetry is direct and simple, and is characterised by a concision and exactness. The beauty of his work comes from its simplicity, but also from its rawness and harshness, especially when he is writing about loss. A master craftsman, Margarit is also an architect of the emotions...In her accomplished translations, Anna Crowe recreates the sonorous intensity of the originals, and brings Margarit's work to new readers. --Turo Delgado, Edinburgh Review

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Joan Margarit was born in 1938 in Sanaüja, 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, working for part of that time on Gaudi s Sagrada Familia cathedral. He first published poetry in Spanish, but after four books decided to write in Catalan. From 1980 he began to establish his reputation as a major Catalan poet. As well as publishing many collections in Catalan, he has published Spanish versions of all his work, and over the past 15 years has gained recognition as a leading poet in Spanish. In 2008 he received the Premio Nacional de Poesía del Estado Español, Spain s highest literary award, for his collection Casa de Misericòrdia, as well as the Premi Nacional de Literatura de la Generalitat de Catalunya. In 2013 he was awarded Mexico's Premio de Poetas del Mundo Latino Víctor Sandoval for all his poetry.

Tugs in the Fog: Selected Poems (Bloodaxe Books, 2006), translated by Anna Crowe, the first English translation of his Catalan poetry, was a Poetry Book Society Recommended Translation. Strangely Happy, a selection of later poems from Casa de Misericòrdia (2007) and Misteriosament feliç (2008), also translated by Anna Crowe, was published by Bloodaxe in 2011. A third translation by Anna Crowe of his most recent poetry, Love Is a Place, was published by Bloodaxe in November 2016; this includes all the poems from three Catalan collections: No era lluny ni difícil(It Wasn't Far Away or Difficult, 2010), Es perd el senyal (The Signal Is Fading, 2012) and Estimar és un lloc (From Where to Begin to Love Again, 2014).

Joan Margarit won the 2019 Cervantes Prize, the Spanish-speaking world's highest literary honour, which recognises the lifetime achievement of an outstanding writer. He will receive this at a presentation on 23 April 2020, on the anniversary of the death in 1616 of Miguel de Cervantes, author of Don Quixote, in a ceremony attended by King Felipe VI.

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• Editore: Bloodaxe Books Ltd
• Data di pubblicazione: 2006
• ISBN 10: 1852247517
• ISBN 13: 9781852247515
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 174