Jaume Subirana

Germà gos

Language: catalan

Translations: english (My brother dog), french (Frère chien ), german (Bruder Hund), spanish (Hermano perro)

Germà gos

Si la mort si la malaltia
de l’altre són també la nostra
pròpia mort i malaltia
aquest cop sec aquest udol
tallant del gos atropellat
la sang de les potes inertes
el gest tibant el cap els ulls
envidreïts de nina vella
em diuen què de quina
meva sort?

Jaume Subirana

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* 15.03.1963, Barcelona, Spain
lives in: , Spain

Jaume Subirana is a poet, translator, lecturer in literature and cultural manager.

He has published poetry (Una pedra que sura is the latest volume, 2011) and prose, and has edited various works on Catalan literature and the city of Barcelona. He has translated novels, poetry (Heaney, Kooser, Snyder, Stevenson) and song lyrics from English.

Subirana was a member of the board of PEN Català and founded and directed the website Lletra at the Open University of Catalonia.

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From 2004 to 2006 he was Director of the Institute of Catalan Literature. From 2004 to 2006 he was Director of Institució de les Lletres Catalanes (the agency for the promotion of Catalan literature).

As an editor, he produced Wilkommen in Katalonien (DTV, 2007) and New Catalan Fiction (The Review of Contemporary Fiction, Dalkey Archive, Spring 2008), two selections of contemporary Catalan narrative. He keeps a blog entitled Flux.

Subirana’s latest book has deserved critiques such as the following, by Pere Calonge: “Rapala uses a diversity of poetic forms to devise condense clean texts; poems of a great precision, brief but intense, like small bubbles which burst in the reader, thereby exuding a sensation, an image, an idea. And with the art of fishing as a metaphor which is fairly apparent, though present throughout his books of poems: on occasion, as a solid basis of the poetic exercise; at other times, just the starting point, the stimulus. A metaphor for heedful observation, for he who can see beyond the surface; a metaphor for perseverance, for patience that fishing for the right word also calls for”.

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