She had a crucifix at the head of her bed, and she wasn’t a believer. A packed suitcase in a corner of the alcove, and she crossed no border. An apron pocketful of candies, and she had no sweet tooth. A lavender lipstick the shade of her skin and two cashmere sweaters, but she never left the slow, inclined orbit of sorrow. She had all these things. Who was she. If only I knew how to look for her in whatever she didn’t have.
was born in Barcelona in 1968. She has a PhD in Philology from the University of Barcelona, where she is Professor of Medieval and Renaissance Spanish Literature. She has published seven collections of poetry in Catalan: Ocellania (1977),El desordre de les mans (2003),Instruments òptics (2005), Llibre dels minuts (2006) which won the 2006 Premi Miquel de Palol, Diafragma (2012), Mur (2015); and Viatge al centre(2020). She is also the author of a prose journal of her time spent in India entitled Indi visible (2018).
