Bartomeu Fiol Biography
Bartomeu Fiol (1933) has a degree in Political Science. He has worked in the hotel and catering business, as a bookseller and cultural promoter. He was president of the cultural association Obra Cultural Balear (1990 – 1992), and has published numerous opinion pieces in the press.
His poetry has figured prominently on the Catalan poetry scene in the Balearic Islands since the publication of his first book Calaloscans (Dogcove, 1966).
For Salvador Espriu
Though we are still fearful and don't amount to much
thus knowing we are so susceptible
and are strangely incapable
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The wile of the device where artifice survives
can be considerable - and respectable.
But here, every ploughing
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‘Lucid but dislocated',
the most suitable epitaph.
‘You have disturbed my tongue,
you have stopped the flow', you could add.
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De aquí no se va nadie
LEON FELIPE
We shall not move from here - as you very well know -
on this shore close together, leaning into the blustery wind,
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Keinen verderben zu lassen, auch nicht sich selber
BERTOLT BRECHT
They are not so difficult these bumpy brows of ours
nor so difficult a dog to console, with ringworm and all.
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