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Màrius Sampere

Quan ja saps

  • 1 Cada cor és un minut | Translations: ende
  • 2 Com m’agrada | Translations: endees
  • 3 La data d’avui | Translations: enfrdeitesab
  • 4 Mare, no em renyis | Translations: de
  • 5 Ofici | Translations: enes
  • 6 Origen | Translations: ende
  • 7 Pare, el dolor | Translations: ende
  • 8 Quan ja saps | Translations: ende
  • 9 Va ser una nit | Translations: ende
Language: catalan
Translations: english (When you already know), german (Wenn du schon weißt)
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Quan ja saps

Quan ja saps
que cada rostre és un marbre
musical, que la nit
no és la por de la llum, que l’ull obert
de la finestra no mira
enlloc i que no té
pes el pes,

¿què hi fas, encara,
a escola
aprenent de lletra; dures, gruixudes
guixades de carbó
amb sang a les parets?

© Màrius Sampere
From: Thanatos suite
Seuba, 1997
Audio production: Institut Ramon Llul

Translations:

Language: english

When you already know

When you already know
every face is musical
marble, night
is not the fear of light, window’s
open eyes look
nowhere and weight
is weightless,

what are you still doing then
at school
learning to write: rough, thick
coal marks
in blood on the walls?

Translated by D. Sam Abrams
Language: german

Wenn du schon weißt

Wenn du schon weißt,
dass jedes Antlitz Marmor
aus Musik ist, dass die Nacht
nicht die Angst vor dem Licht ist, dass das offene Auge
des Fensters nirgends
hinschaut und dass das Gewicht
nicht von Gewicht ist,

was machst du dann noch
in der Schule
und lernst das Alphabet: harte, dicke
Kohlenstriche
mit Blut an den Wänden?

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Màrius Sampere

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* 28.12.1928, Barcelona, Spain
† 26.05.2018, Barcelona, Spain

Màrius Sampere was a poet, painter, composer and lyricist.

As a poet, he published numerous books, noteworthy among which are L’home i el límit (Man and Limit, 1968), Poemes en baixa freqüència (Low Frequency Poems, 1976), Recull de Blanes (The Blanes Collection, 1975), Samsara (1982), Llibre de les inauguracions (Book of Inaugurations, 1984), Demiúrgia (Demiurge, 1996), Subllum (Sublight, 2000), Les imminències (The Imminences, 2002) and Jerarquies (Hierarchies, 2003).

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He garnered the most prestigious accolades awarded to Catalan poetry, including the title of Master in the Art of Poetry at the Jocs Florals literary competition, the Creu de Sant Jordi (St. George’s Cross), the Crítica Serra d’Or Prize, the City of Barcelona Poetry Prize and the National Prize for Literature.

Also noteworthy were his advanced studies in music (he was both a composer and a lyricist) and his forays into the plastic arts as an abstract painter.

The Màrius Sampere International Award, convened by the Santa Coloma de Gramenet Town Hall, includes events surrounding the figure and work of the poet.

He penned articles, narratives, prologues and several literary contributions. 

Included in different anthologies, the poetry of Màrius Sampere, at first rooted in social realism on account of the difficulty of standardising it, establishes itself in actual fact on a very physical basis, occasionally, however, metaphysical and bitingly sarcastic; at other times, profoundly human.

Publications
  • L’home i el límit

    [‘Man and Limit’]

    Proa, 1968

  • L’ocell que udola

    [‘The Howling Bird’]

    Barcelona: Columna, 1990

  • Si no fos en secret

    [‘If it Were Not in Secret’]

    [an anthology of poetry edited by D.S. Abrams & Jaume Subirana]

    Barcelona: Proa, 1999

  • Subllum

    [‘Sublight’]

    Barcelona: Proa, 2000

  • Les imminències

    [‘The imminences’]

    Barcelona: Proa, 2002

  • Jerarquies

    [‘Hierarchies’]

    Barcelona: Proa, 2003

  • Ens trobarem a fora

    [‘We shall meet outdoors’]

    Barcelona: Proa, 2006

  • Altres presències

    [‘Others appearances’]

    Barcelona: Meteora, 2008

  • La ciutat submergida

    Pollença: Edicions del Salobre, 2010

  • L’estació dels espiadimonis

    Palma: Lleonard Muntaner, 2010

  • Dorm / Els espais ocupats

    Badalona: Pont del Petroli, 2015

  • 123

    València: Edicions del Buc, 2015

Prizes
  • 1972 Master in the Art of Poetry at the Jocs Florals literary competition

  • 1999 Creu de Sant Jordi (St. George’s Cross)

  • 2001 Crítica Serra d’Or Prize

  • 2003 City of Barcelona Poetry Prize

  • 2003 National Prize for Literature

  • 2015 Prize Crítica Catalana de poesia

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