Albert Roig (Tortosa, 1959) is a poet, essayist, playwright, translator and professor at the Institut del Teatre in Barcelona. He has published poetry books including Córrer la taronja, 1979-2001 [Picking Oranges: 1979-2001] (Edicions 62, 2002), A l’encesa [By Lamplight] (Edicions 62, 2007), and La tempesta [The Storm] (Edicions 62, 2011). He has written various books of essays, among which the most striking are I pelava la taronja amb les dents [And He Peeled the Orange With His Teeth] (2005), Gos: vida de Rainer Maria Rilke [Dog: Life of Rainer Maria Rilke] (2016) and Posseït [Possessed] (2022). His work has been translated into French, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Russian and German.
Els ulls de la gossa [The Dog's Eyes] collects (almost) all Albert Roig’s poetry: from his first book, Com un àngel a les mans d’un barber [As an Angel in the Hands of a Barber], to La tempesta [The Storm], now completed. Meanwhile, it also includes many poems undiscovered until now and the definitive versions of the poems which have made him one of the leading lights of his generation.
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