Joan Margarit: Campanet
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SUMMERS IN CAMPANET WITH JOANA

 

Through the front doors that nobody

Ever closed

a patio could be seen at the far end

of each house:

the patios with hortensias

in tins.

The black nights of summer,

While a melancholic bell clanged

of some goat

I heard a voice

that alerted me:

You will remember Mallorca

with every tear.

Its last door

is already closed.

Es perd el senyal (Loosing the signal), 2012

Translated by Núria Cohen.

Joan Margarit

(Sanaüja, 1938). Joan Margarit is a poet, architect and professor at the School of Architecture in Barcelona. His oeuvre has played a fundamental role in contemporary Catalan poetry. Among his works are L´ombra de l´altre mar (1981, La dona del navegant (1986, winner of the Serra d´Or Prize in 1987), Casa de Misericòrdia (2007) or Es perd el senyal (2002). He has been awarded numerous prizes throughout his career as a poet that started in 1963.

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