Maria-Mercè Marçal
Written during the last years of her life when she was fighting cancer, the first Catalan edition of this book, Raó del Cos, was published two years after her death. Faced with death she opens a dialogue between life and poetry, the ephemeral and the eternal, marked by subtle images and a language moulded by her feminism. Dealing with love, illness and death, The Bodys Reason is a book full of poetic energy.
