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Joan
Brossa
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Biography
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Joan Brossa i Cuervo (Barcelona
1919 - 1998) was a poet in every sense of the word. He wrote poetry
in traditional stanzas (sonnets, Sapphic odes, sestinas, romances, etc.),
poetry about everyday concerns (which he also called anti-poetry because
of its subject material and prosaic form), circumstantial prose (collected
in Vivàrium (1972) and Anafil (1987)), poetic prose, theatre,
film scripts, visual poetry and object poetry. For Brossa, genres and
dividing lines between the arts don't exist.
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He began to write occasionally
during the civil war, though it was while he was doing his military
service in Salamanca that he threw himself into the writing of his imatges
hipnagògiques (hypnagogic images). After his return to Barcelona
he met J.V. Foix, and subsequently, Joan Miró and Joan Prats.
Thanks to their advice, his first books La bola i l'escarabat (The Ball
and the Beatle) (1941-1943) and Fogall de sonets would gain in elaboration
and rethoric without renouncing his more strictly surrealist techniques.
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Brossa's work: magic letters and words
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Brossa works with words and letters, he considers
the letters objects and symbols, he uses often the letter "A"
to creats other things, for example, he takes "A" and he turns
it on and he creats a Bull's Head. He uses also different objects to
create his poems (objectual poems or visual poems). Everyday objects
became sudently magic or fantastic objects. Brossa turns or enlarges
their meaning. Of course his work hat a big relationship with the language,
with the Catalan language. As a poet he play with the meaning of the
words and with his letters.
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