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Master of Distances
Jordi Doce; Translated by Terence Dooley
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Master of Distances consists of a hundred or so prose fragments
fluctuating between dream, nightmare and a harsh reality: the
bleakness of ageing, and accompanying the loved one through a long
and debilitating illness. The continuity of mood and imagery
gradually melds the fragments into a single poem. The poet stumbles
confusedly as through a labyrinth of feeling and sensation. Who or
what is the mysterious master of distances of the title? Time?
Language? Oneself? The answer is a radical experiment in poetry and
a new departure for this fine lyric poet. "Jordi Doce is one of the
three or four living European poets whose work I most treasure. He
brings all his faculties to the rich task of being; his voice
inhabits the names, not just with wonder, but with new
possibilities; [...] he is a companion, not a guide, always present
with us, never merely pointing what he thinks might be the way."
—John Burnside "One of the most striking elements of We Were Not
There is that feeling of collaborative concern, that awareness of
commonality, the record of experiences that permits us to recognise
our common humanity." —Ian Brinton, Tears in the Fence "Few
modern poets are better able to make us rethink our everyday
purposes and perceptions." —Brian Morton, PN Review Praise for
Master of Distances: "The book is further evidence of Doce's deeply
personal lyrical journey, blending realism and metaphysics, an
attention to the visible and lived with the imaginary and symbolic,
the many faces of emotion with the bristling edges of thought."
—Manuel Rico, El Pais
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We Were Not There (Paperback)
Jordi Doce; Translated by Lawrence Schimel
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“Jordi Doce is one of the three or four living European poets
whose work I most treasure. He brings all his faculties to the rich
task of being; his voice inhabits the names, not just with wonder,
but with new possibilities; like Machado, on the one hand, and
Montale on the other, he is a companion, not a guide, always
present with us, never merely pointing what he thinks might be the
way.” —John Burnside “Unforgettable poems that, on the verge
of tales and fables, drag the reader toward a universe of screened
images, like 'pollen clouds in the slant evening light'.”
—Antonio Ortega, El Pais
This volume brings together poems from six collections originally
published between 1990 and 2011. I have divided the selection into
five sections that correspond, broadly, to the separate stages in
which they were written. The final and briefest one includes five
fragments from Perros en la playa [Dogs on the Beach], a miscellany
of prose, poetry and aphorisms that I published in early 2011. In
my opinion, a Selected should not solely contain poems that have
been often anthologised or singled out for praise by critics and
readers. It should give a more or less accurate view of the variety
and development of one's output over the years. Therefore, I have
not shied away from including some youthful pieces or the odd
experiment-not to mention poems for which one feels an immoderate
fondness, which no amount of critical scrutiny can ever hope to
dispel. (Jordi Doce)
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