Jaume Pont

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Jaume Pont (Lleida, 1947) is a poet and he teaches Literature at the University of Lleida. His essays deal mainly with poetry, covering a very wide range of its aspects, from the “postista” (a Madrid-based avant-garde movement of the 1940s) poets through to his studies of new generations of Catalan poets. His anthology La nova poesia catalana (New Catalan Poetry), co-authored with Joaquim Marco, would became the spearhead of his own literary group, the 1980s generation.)

The Best Poem Of Jaume Pont

Latitude of the Tightrope Walker

Closer to love

indivisible
orbit enclosing
the flesh's tunnel of fire

nipple of fear and the deep

Closer to you
the latitude of the tightrope

Translated by Hillary Gardner

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