I no longer have wings, but my angel still believes in me

I discovered the poet Ramon Guillem thanks to the songs that singer-songwriter Miquel Gil had created based on some of the most emblematic texts of the author from Catarroja. From then on, I read him avidly and was even lucky enough to meet him—and I say "lucky" because he was an exceptional human being. Our first in-person meeting was, in fact, in Llucmajor during the Cavall Verd awards ceremony organized by Miquel Bezares and dedicated to Maria Antònia Salvà. Laughing, I told him about the anthology of young poets we were preparing at the time. FirestoneAnd his face turned one of the palest whites I've ever seen before he told me that was the title he'd thought of for the book of poems he was writing. He had to change it, but it was for the better, since his book ended up being called Abyss and bird, as a tribute to the composer Olivier Messiaen and the very famous movement "Abîme des oiseaux" of the Quartet pour el fin takes time.

Between this initial encounter with a musical bird in the background and his tragic, untimely death, there were countless dialogues, exchanges, and passionate encounters, from Manresa to Sitges. Ramon Guillem was, always, a delightful man, a discerning reader, a champion of literary passions, a sensational rhapsodist, an excellent prose writer, and one of the best poets of his generation. After his passing, his work has come to light. Flesh of oblivion in Bromera and At in Edicions del Buc: two prodigious posthumous works, two farewells, two testaments, two punches in the form of a book that strike with their clairvoyance, with their concentrated capacity to generate verbal and vital epiphanies identical to the revelations that are achieved in their definitive moments in which definitions are achieved.

In an extraordinary epilogue, Jaume Pont analyzes the grandeur of these final verses and the journey they propose, from the exploration of darkness to the ultimate experience of light and clarity.Ales' It is an exceptional book, brimming with devastating imagery and metaphysical insights, and in Mercè Claramunt's moving note to the edition, we are brought closer to the textual and personal processes of a true master of our literature, a simple yet erudite man, a demiurge of the workings of the emanating. Guided by Hölderlin and Rilke, Guillermo journeys back to his roots to bid farewell and ends up crafting some of the most powerful elegiac poems in the history of literature: prodigious poems like 'Casa' and 'Temps' shake and resonate. Because, as Ramon Guillem aptly concludes his magnum opus, despite the razor's sharp edge, life is always renewed.