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La llarga primavera a casa (The long spring at home)

4 julio, 2007 0 Comments

Toni Roca.
Editorial Mediterrània.
Ibiza, 2004.

This book closes the series which Toni Roca dedicates to the four seasons.  This, as all poetry books, talks of love and life’s other elementals.  With a lighter language and a more ethereal vocabulary than in the books given over to the other seasons, he expresses his joys, mainly, and his sorrows, not so many, of spring.

In a day to day language and through anecdotes of daily life he is capable of showing philosophical preoccupations.  The fine irony gives depth to poems which at first appear naïf.

References to Charlie Parker or John Coltrane are a must.  As are those to Kentucky or Arkansas.  But there are also those to Orient, the small village in the Majorca hills, or to Sinera, the small Catalan town immortalised by the poet Salvador Espriu.

Another must is the mania for cinematographic mythology, as in the poem Marlene Dietrich al Sunset Boulevard.  It includes the poem Un capvespre et portaré a Formentera, which Victorí Planells set to music.
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