Pere Gimferrer

A bilingual edition of poems by the award-winning Spanish poet. Pere Gimferrer has been writing poetry for more than fifty years in several languages, restoring and expanding upon avant-garde tendencies in poetry that had been abandoned in Spain after the Spanish Civil War. Of his second book, The Sea Aflame , Octavio Paz wrote: “Our language will be, already is, larger by one poet.” In 1970, with Mirrors , Gimferrer turned to Catalan, his mother tongue. Since then, he has won major Catalan and