Oliva Feature
• Fransisco Brines Oliva Poet
By Hola Oliva
POET FRANCISCO BRINES was born in Oliva, Spain in 1932. Throughout his career he has received important prizes, noteably the Crítica Prize (1966), the National Poetry Prize (1986) and the prestigious Federico García Lorca Prize (2007). In 2001 he was elected a member of the Royal Spanish Academy. Without doubt Brines is considered one of Spains most important contemporary poets.
On awarding Brines the prestigious Queen Sofia Poetry Prize in April, 2010 the jurer, writer Jaime Siles, defined Brines as a 'great metaphysical poet', who through his verse 'teaches us (how to) live', and that his 'El otoño de las rosas' (1986) is 'one of the pinnacles' of 20th century Spanish poetry.
EL OTOÑO DE LAS ROSAS
Vives ya en la estación del tiempo rezagado:
lo has llamado el otoño de las rosas.
Apíralas y enciéndete. Y escucha,
cuando el cielo se apague, el silencio del mundo.
THE AUTUMN OF THE ROSES
You already live the season of the postponed time:
you named it the autumn of the roses.
Inhale them and inflame. And listen,
when heaven extinguishes, to the silence of the world.
Translation to English Germain Droogenbroodt
From: 'The sound of the World', Point Editions no. 47
Poet Francisco Brines currently resides in Oliva, Valencia, Spain.
Francisco Brines Poetry books:
Las Brasas (1960)
Santo Inocente (1965)
Palabras a la Oscuridad (1966)
Insistencias en Luzbel (1977)
Poemas Excluidos (1985)
Otoño de las Rosas (1986)
Espejo Ciego (1993)
Insistencias en Luzbel (1995)
La Última Costa (1995)
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