Maria Josep Escrivà

Lentes estalactites

Poems

• 1 Poema a la intempèrie | Translations: en
• 2 La llum és l'excepció | Translations: en
• 3 L'obscè | Translations: en
• 4 La casa sota la lluna | Translations: en
• 5 Lentes estalactites | Translations: en
• 6 Obstacles | Translations: en
• 7 Síndrome premenstrual | Translations: en
• 8 Els anys serens | Translations: en
• 9 Els polps | Translations: en

Language: catalan

Translations: english (Slow Stalactites)

Lentes estalactites

Ens modela el dolor,

lentes estalactites
que creixen a mesura
que es dessagnen

contra l'abisme
on precipita
la gota inesgotable
que sense preguntar

ens perpetua.

Translations:

Language: english

Slow Stalactites

Pain sculpts us, 

slow stalactites 

growing as 

they bleed 

against the abyss 

where the dogged drip 

drops down 

and without query 

sustains us.

Maria Josep Escrivà

photo © Sergi Escrivà

* 10.03.1968, El Grau de Gandia, Spain
lives in: , Spain

Maria Josep Escrivà (El Grau de Gandia, 1968) is the author of six books of poetry, the last three of which have been significant in her career for several reasons: with Flors a casa (2007), she won the Jocs Florals de Barcelona Prize and with it, the title of «Poet of the City»; Serena barca (2016) won the 2017 Valencian Writers' Critics Award. And Sempre és tard (2020) won the Miquel de Palol de Girona Prize and later was awarded the Catalan Poetry Critics Prize.

photo © Salva Gregori

She is the author of narrative books for readers of all ages, such as Àngels de nata (2013), L’Home del Capell de Palla (2017) or Tenda d’animals (2018).

Her poems have been included in several anthologies in Italian, French and English. In the latter you can read a sample of her poetry in Women Writers in Catalan (Raig Verd, 2017).

She has published numerous articles of literary criticism in various media. She directs a collection of poetry at Edicions 96, the Valencian publishing house where she works.

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