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Jordi Valls i Pozo recita Miracle
Jordi Valls i Pozo (born in Barcelona, January 25, 1970) is a Catalan poet.
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Biography
He has lived in Santa Coloma de Gramenet, a city that strongly impressed his poetic trajectory, for the majority of his life.
Jordi Valls presided The Associació de Joves Escriptors en Llengua Catalana (Association of Young Catalan Language Writers) from 1994 to 1996, and is a member of The Associació d'Escriptors en Llengua Catalana (AELC) and The PEN Club Català (Catalan PEN Club).
Having won The Jocs Florals de la Llengua Catalana in 2006, he is the first author who holds the office of Poet of The City. Actually he works like a bookseller in city centre. Ernest Farrés, author of the anthology called 21 poetes del XXI (2001), states that "In the hands of Jordi Valls poetry is not only subversion but it is most of all the essence of the literary fact". Carles Martí, Town Councillor of Culture in the Council of Barcelona defined him as "a citizen of the Metropolis who knows to capture the instants in which the human life has expression with all its beauty".