Joan Todó (La Sénia, 1977) is a writer. He cultivates all genres: poetry, Los fòssils (al ras) [The Fossils (in the Open)] (LaBreu Edicions, 2007) and El fàstic que us cega [The Disgust that Blinds You] (LaBreu Edicions, 2012); short story, A butxacades [In the Pockets] (2011) and Lladres [Thieves] (2016); and the novel, L’horitzó primer [The Horizon First] (2013). His latest book is La verda és porta [Door Is the Green] (2021), an unclassifiable book blending news report, biography and novel awarded the Finestres Prize in 2022. Among others, he has also translated a book of poems by Mark Strand (Rufaga d’un, 2016).
La vista als dits [Eyes on the Hands], awarded the 2022 Critic's Prize, brings Todó’s two revised and revisited poetry books together, and ends with the erotic collection La vista als dits. Todó’s poetry springs from a language at the origins of landscape. In his verses, poetic imagination and critical thinking are two sides of the same coin. T hey combine irony and sarcasm and meditative, lyrical discourse, with a stream of references and absolute mastery of the poetic rhythm. The verses seem free and innocent, however they resonate deeply.
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