La trayectoria poética de Jaime Ferrán: un caudal de vida y poesía

Abstract

Jaume Ferrán is known internationally for his poetry, academic contributions as professor, researcher and critic, as well as his memoir writing. Throughout almost seven decades poetry was his vital passion, and his life provided the principal poetic thrust of his verse. His poems reflect the full spectrum of his life experience, beginning with the intimate deliberations of youth, weaving through a committed and itinerant adulthood, and flowing into the final serene reflections in the face of death. From that beginning up to this end, various vital and poetic stages follow each other within a thematic framework that defines and unifies them: a profound Christian existentialism, a geographic pilgrimage, a sentimental essence, and a vital commitment up to the emotional final farewell. In all of them, like a constant heartbeat, the memory of a yesteryear, which configures the present, is recovered poetically over and over again. In parallel, the structure of his poems evokes a constant sway between traditional metrical forms and a formal experimentalism. From classical forms to free verse, his poems come alive with polymetrical experimentation, ruptured, bleeding, and staggered verses, to the point of reaching an extreme minimalism at times. Intertextuality and polyphony, like a secular echo, enrich his unique voice.