Dedalus Press - Enrique Juncosa

ENRIQUE JUNCOSA was born in Palma de Mallorca in 1961. He has published six collections of poetry in his native Spanish, from the most recent two of which—Las espirales naranja (2002) and Bahía de las banderas (2007)—the poems in the present volume are taken. Since 2003 Juncosa is also the director of the Irish Museum of Modern Art where he edits the journal Boulevard Magenta. He has been deputy director of the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía in Madrid and of the Instituto Valenciano de Arte Moderno. He has curated numerous shows of many major artists including Dorothy Cross, Howard Hodgkin, Miroslaw Balka, James Coleman and Terry Winters (whose artwork features on the cover of Bay of Flags and other poems).

ABOUT THE TRANSLATOR
Michael Smith is one of Ireland’s most admired poets and translators, and the recipient of the European Academy of Poetry Medal for his services to poetry translation.

JUNCOSA, ENRIQUE
Bay of Flags & other poems
2008, 5.5" x 8.5", 170 pp

Formally energetic and singularly engaging, Enrique Juncosa’s poetry reveals what the poet himself terms "a certain obsession with lists and proper names, of people and places"—as well as a focus on the external world that will hold the reader’s attention throughout even where it refuses linear narrative or tidy conclusion.

“Ultimately,” as Michael Smith puts it, “the poems are celebratory of the world in all its incomprehensible strangeness and its beauty.” The opportunity to read them now in this dual-language volume is in itself cause for celebration.

Books will be mailed in week of publication
(02 Feb 2010)