10 After a life devoted to writing prodigious narrative works, in the final period of her life, poems became—and only the most avid eyes could have foreseen this, since there were already poetic bones in her prose—her creative foundation, and in this way she ended up achieving well-deserved honors. This could be a portrait of Thomas Hardy, but it is also a portrait of the immense Antònia Vicens, who returns with her most radical, most sincere, and most perfect book: Take up your cross at LaBreu Edicions, a devoted publishing house that has brought to light the latest and supreme poetic volumes of the author, endowed with the gift of achieving maximum expressiveness through minimal expression.

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