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\nHe might carry a bucket in one hand, and a brush in the other. Now and then he would stop and, feeling around, might start painting on air. For even though no one has seen him doing so it doesn’t mean he can’t, or that now, even now, he isn’t.<\/p>\n
Even though he would often talk to himself, or so it would seem, he might also say that “if we do some figuring, most of the time, of each day’s time, that is, we go without talking to anybody, or if we do, it is a monologue.”<\/p>\n
His poems would be a tangle of emotions, a mixture of both the deepest anguish and the most exultant joy of living, which would really prove our hypothesis on the bucket and the ingredients it most likely contains. Such words would justify “an imperative need for holing isolation and expel what lies behind these impertinent silences.”<\/p>\n
One day he might get to tell us his fears -once we established a deep friendship, which might be hard-, that there would be “plenty of shit” in the bucket. And if another day passed and we came to feel it is him -really, and given the circumstances, it is thoroughly unlikely-, we might hear him mutter “a monologue that starts a voice that is yet another monologue and so on and on, nonstop, until despair, until death.”<\/p>\n
All the poems that should be written would be part of a project he can’t tell whether he might complete- namely, empty the bucket regularly-. It is yet one more way to not be dead.<\/p>\n
1990 Xiscle<\/em><\/a> 2004 Chillido<\/em><\/a> (by Isabel Foo) Vacu, the suffering being<\/a><\/em> \ubc14\uafb8 \uace0\ud1b5\uc758 \uc874\uc7ac<\/a> Vacu, izaki sufritzailea<\/a><\/em> Vacu, o ser sufrinte<\/a><\/em>
\n1992 Ena menys una<\/em><\/a>
\n1995 Druda<\/em><\/a>
\n2000 Trit<\/em><\/a>
\n2004 Miserere<\/em><\/a>
\n2004 Vacu, l’\u00e9sser sofrent<\/em><\/a>
\n2005 Nicis<\/em><\/a>
\n2007 Ecs, perpetuum mobile<\/em><\/a>
\n2007 Atziacs<\/em><\/a>
\n2007 A furt – Obra po\u00e8tica<\/em> 1990-2006<\/a>
\n2008 Bra, llavis negres<\/em><\/a>
\n2011 Fora, en estat de sense sostre<\/em><\/a>
\n2012 Excret\u00f2ria<\/em><\/a>
\n2015 Brosta, verd sobre verd – Web 2.0<\/em><\/a>
\n2018 Rost<\/em><\/a><\/p>\nSpanish translations<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n
\n2005 Ene menos una<\/em><\/a> (by Isabel Foo)
\n2006 Druda, el vigilante de la obra<\/em><\/a> (by Isabel Foo)
\n2009 Vacu, el ser sufriente<\/em><\/a><\/p>\nOther translations<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n
\n(English by \u00c1ngel Mirou)<\/p>\n
\n(Korean by Mihwa Jo & Singyu Kang)<\/p>\n
\n(Basque by Jon Elordi)<\/p>\n
\n(Galician by Mar\u00eda Cui\u00f1as)<\/p>\n