Vinyet Panyella

Hotel Roma, III

Language: catalan

Translations: english (Hotel Roma, III)

Hotel Roma, III

Hi ha un infern de silenci i de glaç
que m’habita fa temps
sense vials que indiquin la sortida.
No vull miralls que representin el traç fugaç d’una ombra.
Orba de llum espero els clarobscurs de l’alba.
Germana fosca
mare
obre’m camí
nit amiga i voraç.
Brocal de molsa
fes-me de coixí.
Arrel antiga
acull-me en l’abraçada.
Terra que sóc
portal de les arrels
obre el cancell per a l’eternitat
que l’ample riu de la pena travessa.

Vinyet Panyella

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* 15.02.1954, Sitges, Spain
lives in: Sitges, Spain

Vinyet Panyella (Sitges, 1954) is writer, poet, cultural manager and curator of exhibitions. She is the author of numerous essays on art, literature and modern cultural history. Panyella was the Manager of the National Library of Catalonia (Biblioteca de Catalunya, 1989-1996) and its Director (2000-2004). She has been the Director of the Sitges Art museus (Consorci del Patrimoni de Sitges) between 2011 and 2019 and she is now the president of the Council for Culture and Arts of Catalonia. She has been publishing a blog and a web page, Quadern de Terramar since 2006. Panyella is the author of fourteen poetry collections and her poetry has been included in diverse anthologies. Her poetic theory is expounded in El dard i el poema (Els Fulls de l’Escriptori, 2011). She has been invited at the international poetry and literary festivals in Mallorca, Faro, Maastricht, Malta and Utrecht. Panyella is a founding member of the poetry journal Poetari. Revista catalana de poesia (2011). Her poetry has been translated into Castilian, Portuguese, Maltese, English, Russian, Croatian, Dutch, Italian, Latvian and French.

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