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Love is a Place
Joan Margarit
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Description for Love is a Place
Paperback. Joan Margarit is one of Spain's major modern writers, known for his mastery of the Catalan language. In Love Is a Place, a translation of his three most recent collections, he finds himself face to face with the prospect of his own death, while rediscovering love. Translator(s): Crowe, Anna. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 140 x 216 x 24. Weight in Grams: 304.
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 four decades has become known for his mastery of the Catalan language, and is now, arguably, Spain's most widely acclaimed contemporary poet. The melancholy and candour of his poetry show his affinity with Thomas Hardy, whose work he has translated. In the much praised Tugs in the Fog: Selected Poems (Bloodaxe Books, 2006), Joan Margarit evoked the Spanish Civil War and its aftermath, the harshness of life in Barcelona under Franco, and ... Read more
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 four decades has become known for his mastery of the Catalan language, and is now, arguably, Spain's most widely acclaimed contemporary poet. The melancholy and candour of his poetry show his affinity with Thomas Hardy, whose work he has translated. In the much praised Tugs in the Fog: Selected Poems (Bloodaxe Books, 2006), Joan Margarit evoked the Spanish Civil War and its aftermath, the harshness of life in Barcelona under Franco, and ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Bloodaxe Books Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
Tyne and Wear, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781780373287
SKU
V9781780373287
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About Joan Margarit
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 ... Read more
Reviews for Love is a Place
'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; 'Wow!...Erotic closeness, distance, passion, jealousy, indifference, night, death, imagination, apocalypse, and more all in a ... Read more