Jaume Pont (Lleida, 1947), a renowned poet with a long track record, is the author of nine poetry books. Among his most striking works are Raó d’atzar [Reason of Chance] (Edicions 62, 1990), Vol de Cendres [Flight of Ashes] (Edicions 62, 1996), Llibre de la Frontera [Book of the Border] (Proa, 2000), Enlloc [Nowhere] (Proa, 2007) and Càntic d’ombres [Canticle of Shadows] (Perifèric Edicions, 2017). He has received the most important prizes in Catalan letters, the Crítica Serra d’Or (twice), the Nacional de la Crítica and the Carles Riba. His work has been translated into twenty-six languages.
In Mirall de negra nit [Black Night Mirror] the experience of loss, the death of the other and absence as an experience transformed into language as the only possibility for survival confirm Pont’s poetic voice as one of the peaks of our contemporary literature. His poetry, rooted in the existing contradictions between word, time, love and death, stands out because of the intensity of its expression and the dazzling power of his images.
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