Pere Gimferrer
A bilingual edition of poems by the award-winning Spanish poet.

Pere Gimferrer has been writing poetry for more than fifty years in several languages, restoring and expanding upon avant-garde tendencies in poetry that had been abandoned in Spain after the Spanish Civil War. Of his second book, The Sea Aflame, Octavio Paz wrote: “Our language will be, already is, larger by one poet.” In 1970, with Mirrors, Gimferrer turned to Catalan, his mother tongue. Since then, he has won major Catalan and Spanish prizes for his work, which, along with poetry, includes writings on film and art history, translations, and novels. This bilingual volume, the first to draw on all phases of Gimferrer’s career as a poet—from Message from the Tetrarch, published when he was eighteen, to selections from his recent verses in Italian—is an ideal introduction to a writer who, in the words of Roberto Bolaño, “is a great poet and also knows everything.”
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Pere Gimferrer
A bilingual edition of poems by the award-winning Spanish poet.

Pere Gimferrer has been writing poetry for more than fifty years in several languages, restoring and expanding upon avant-garde tendencies in poetry that had been abandoned in Spain after the Spanish Civil War. Of his second book, The Sea Aflame, Octavio Paz wrote: “Our language will be, already is, larger by one poet.” In 1970, with Mirrors, Gimferrer turned to Catalan, his mother tongue. Since then, he has won major Catalan and Spanish prizes for his work, which, along with poetry, includes writings on film and art history, translations, and novels. This bilingual volume, the first to draw on all phases of Gimferrer’s career as a poet—from Message from the Tetrarch, published when he was eighteen, to selections from his recent verses in Italian—is an ideal introduction to a writer who, in the words of Roberto Bolaño, “is a great poet and also knows everything.”
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A bilingual edition of poems by the award-winning Spanish poet.

Pere Gimferrer has been writing poetry for more than fifty years in several languages, restoring and expanding upon avant-garde tendencies in poetry that had been abandoned in Spain after the Spanish Civil War. Of his second book, The Sea Aflame, Octavio Paz wrote: “Our language will be, already is, larger by one poet.” In 1970, with Mirrors, Gimferrer turned to Catalan, his mother tongue. Since then, he has won major Catalan and Spanish prizes for his work, which, along with poetry, includes writings on film and art history, translations, and novels. This bilingual volume, the first to draw on all phases of Gimferrer’s career as a poet—from Message from the Tetrarch, published when he was eighteen, to selections from his recent verses in Italian—is an ideal introduction to a writer who, in the words of Roberto Bolaño, “is a great poet and also knows everything.”

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781681374994
Publisher: New York Review Books
Publication date: 05/25/2021
Sold by: Penguin Random House Publisher Services
Format: eBook
Pages: 160
File size: 298 KB

About the Author

Pere Gimferrer is the author of more than thirty books in Catalan, Spanish, and Italian. A member of the Real Academia Española and the Reial Acadèmia de Bones Lletres de Barcelona, he has won numerous accolades for his work, including Spain’s National Poetry Prize and the Ramon Llull Novel Award.

Adrian Nathan West is a writer and literary translator living in Spain. He has translated books from German, Catalan, and Spanish, including Jean Améry’s Charles Bovary, Country Doctor, which is published by NYRB Classics. His novel My Father’s Diet will be published in 2021.

Table of Contents

Foreword vii

Inventario / Stocktaking 2

Oda a Venecia ante el mar de los teatros / Ode to Venice Before the Sea of Theaters 6

Invocación en Ginebra / Invocation in Geneva 10

Primera visión de marzo / First Vision of March 16

Una sola nota musical para Hölderlin / A Lone Musical Note for Hölderlin 28

Médicis / Medici 30

La muerte en Beverly Hills / Death in Beverly Hills 34

Shadows / Shadows 62

Elegía / Elegy 64

Paranys / Snares 66

Sistemes / Systems 72

Segona visió de març / Second Vision of March 76

La presa del palau d'hivern / Siege of the Winter Palace 86

Tròpic de Cancer / Tropic of Cancer 92

Tròpic de Capricorn / Tropic of Capricorn 100

Sans laisser d'adresse / Sans Laisser d'Adresse 110

Op. 98/Op, 98 116

Oda / Ode 120

Himno a enero / Hymn to January 126

Elegia / Elegy 130

Rapsodia, in / Rhapsody, III 132

Stemmi / Aims 134

Notturno / Nocturne 136

Sea Surface Full of Clouds / Sea Surface Full of Clouds 138

Cuca / Cuca 140

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