THE PRESENTATION OF PRIAP TO L’ILLA EN BLANC IN IBIZA

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“Island of writing,/if the silence walks:/tot flew life. " This opening statement addressed to Ibiza is the poem that opens the new book by the renowned writer Bartomeu Ribes, “Priap on the island in white”. de hecho, It can be affirmed that this intimacy as a way of connection with the world constitutes the basic premise either to approach the collection of poems or to perceive the author himself.

The Institut d’Estudis Eivissencs was the place where the publishing house Edicions Aïllades presented the work in an event that was attended by the poet, by the editor Ramon Mayol and the writer Nora Albert. The presentation of this volume, which is the fourteenth installment of the series dedicated to the lyrical genre Ones de poesia, was sponsored by the culture councilor of the Ibiza city council, Pep Tur.

The introduction to the event was given by Mayol, which announced the digitization of some poems written by Ribes on the occasion of the tenth anniversary of the publishing house. Once the prologue is over, Albert took the floor to bring the audience closer to the feeling of fine eroticism that runs through the poems presented..

His speech, punctuated by some interventions by the poet, established that the author is not reduced only to his poetic side, but he is also an avid researcher of all intellectual fields. This explains the reference to the Greco-Roman god of fertility Priapus in the title of the work and the figures of the sculptor Joan Daifa on the cover..

Finally, The event concluded with the reading of the 71 compositions of Priap on the island in white that make up the volume by the author Carles Fabregat and the drama teacher Àngels Escandell. So, the public learned first-hand some of the writer's obsessions such as loneliness or the lyrical medium. Go back to the beginning of the article to check it.

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