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Gemma Casamajó publishes her collection of poems in "Domèstica maragda"

20 Mar 2023
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Gemma Casamajó, lecturer in the Department of Media, Communication and Culture at the UAB, presents her third book of poems: Domèstica maragda (Quaderns Crema). In her poems, she reflects upon the intimacy of women based on the rooms and homes they live in and the objects one can find there.

Domèstica maragda

According to Quaderns Crema in their website, the verses of Casamajó turn "the home into a space of femininity par excellence, and the poetic approximation to its physical and symbolic creation raises profound reflections on domestic life, the value of caring, sexuality in advanced years, the weight of emotional ties, the omnipresence of death and the physical dimension of mourning". According to Casamajó, her work as she defined it in the Més 324 television programme is "a tribute to the home as big as a temple". She explains that the title points to the fact that the home "is a precious stone", but also points out that paradoxically, "home is a place of comfort, cosiness and intimacy" and at the same time "can be hell, a place one slaves in" for many women.

Casamajó is lecturer in literary journalism in the bachelor's degree in Journalism, and coordinates the master's degree in Literary Journalism, Communication and the Humanities. She has a long history of reflecting and working in environments in which two forms of learning from reality are related: looking outwards as a journalist and looking inwards as a poet, as well as the expressive resources of literature to describe the world using words.

Domèstica maragda was presented on 15 December 2022 at the Laie bookstore, in an event presented by also writer and journalist Gemma Ruiz. On 21 March 2023, Casamajó will converse over her book with Francesc Parcerisas, poet and retired lecturer from the UAB Faculty of Translation and Interpreting, in an event to be held at the Guinardó-Mercè Rodoreda Library in Barcelona.

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