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			Biobibliography in the Catalan Hyperencyclopedia
			Works in the Biblioteca de Catalunya
			The author in the Congress Library (U.S.)
			The author in the COPAC Catalogue (U.K.)
		Joan Salvat-Papasseit on the Lletra website in Catalan Including more resources and reading suggestions.
		AELC Website Biography, information, publications.
		Papasseit in EPdLP Brief file on Salvat-Papasseit in “El poder de la palabra” (The Power of the Word). Includes text.
		Joan Salvat-Papasseit in the City of Barcelona Literary Corpus Page of the City of Barcelona Literary Corpus with information about Salvat-Papasseit, his work, critical studies and links.
		WORKS
		In German Biographical review in German. With the poems "Res no és mesquí", "Nocturn per a acordió" (Nocturn for Accordion) and "L'ofici que més m'agrada" (The Job I Like Best) in Catalan and German.
		Magisteri Teatre-Mag Poesia Poems from all Salvat-Papasseit’s books, poems from other sources, prose fragments and biobibliographical data.
		Arc-voltaïc Facsimile version of the only number of this publication edited by Joan Salvat-Papasseit, with illustrations by Joan Miró and Rafael Barradas.
		Un enemic del Poble Facsimile version of the publication of which Salvat-Papasseit was director, with contributions by Joaquim Torres-Garcia and Josep Maria de Sucre.
		Els nens de la meva escala (The Kids Where I Live) Five texts from Els nens de la meva escala, published by Salvat-Papasseit in the review La Mainada, in 1921.
		Selection of Catalan Poetry Biographical note. Ten poems from different books.
		Selection of Poems on Biblionet Proposal for reading on Biblionet, the interactive guide to Catalan literature.
		Collection of Catalan Poetry Biographical note with the poems "Perquè has vingut" (Why You Have Come) and "Nocturn per a acordió".
		Manifestos "Concepte de poeta" (Concept of a Poet) and "Contra els poetes amb minúscula" (Against Small-p poets), the first Catalan futurist manifesto along with a biobibliography.
		The Calligram "Les formigues" (The Ants) Image of "Les formigues" along with a forum on the calligram on the weblog “La pell”.
		Gedichte von Joan Salvat-Papasseit (Poems by Joan Salvat-Papasseit) Three poems in Catalan and translated into German.
		Den of Poetry and Verse The online poetry anthology nopotsermentida offers twelve poems and many fragments by Salvat-Papasseit.
		COMMENTS
		"Joan Salvat-Papasseit. Un centenari" (Joan Salvat-Papasseit. A Centenary) Article by Ramon Salvo. Includes the poems "Perquè has vingut" and "Visca l'amor" (Long Live Love).
		"Joan Salvat Papasseit i la contradicció" (Joan Salvat Papasseit and Contradiction) Lecture by Anton Carrera in the Seminar "El gust per la lectura" (The Pleasure of Reading – 1999 - 2000).
	Joan Salvat-Papasseit. L'home entusiasta (Joan Salvat Papasseit. Man of Enthusiasm) Note on this book by Ferran Aisa and Remei Morros.
	The Avant-garde in Catalonia Article in the review Corner on Latin-American and Catalan avant-garde movements. By Stephen N. Hart. In English.
	FURTHER INFORMATION
	Joan Brossa’s Homage Poem by Joan Brossa dedicated to Joan Salvat-Papasseit.
	"Fotografies inèdites de Joan Salvat-Papasseit" (Unpublished Photographs of Joan Salvat Papasseit) Article by Ferran Aisa in Avui (23 April, 2004) on the photographic collection of the poet’s brother. (Pages 1 and 2).
	Aleph: Papasseit on Television A programme on Televisió de Catalunya devoted to the poet.
	Nocturn per a acordió (1975) List of credits for the stage adaptation by the company Dagoll Dagom.
	La rosa als llavis (Rose on the Lips) Poetry recital by students at the Mediterrània Secondary School.
	Poesies (Poetry – 1962) Page on a bibliophile’s edition with thirteen engravings by Josep Guinovart and published by Editorial Ariel.
	Virtual Literary Itineraries "Barcelona i el mar" (Barcelona and Sea) itinerary organised by the Biblioteques de Barcelona (Libraries of Barcelona).

Joan Salvat-Papasseit

Barcelona, 1894-1924. Poet. Self-taught and of working class origins, he is one of the most significant representatives of the historic avant-garde in Catalonia. His father died when he was a child and in 1901 he went to live in the Asilo Naval Español children’s home. From 1906 to 1917 he had a number of different jobs, from grocer’s apprentice to night watchman on the docks. Around 1914 he joined “Juventud Socialista” (Socialist Youth) for which he began to write in revolutionary publications such as Los Miserables, La Justicia Social of Reus and Sabadell Federal, after 1915. His inspiration came from anarchism and he was a staunch defender of the working class, usually using the pseudonym of Gorkiano. Many of these articles were collected in Glosas de un socialista (A Socialist’s Notes – 1916). At this time he preferred to write in Spanish, pouring out his social and political criticism in this language. His essays have been gathered into three collections: Humo de fábrica (Factory Smoke – 1918) with a prologue by the writer Àngel Samblancat, this book including many articles from his Glosas (Notes); the texts of Mots propis (My Own Words), moral reflections on humankind inspired in the philosophy of Nietzsche and the ideas of Torres-Garcia that were published (1917 – 1919) in the review Un Enemic del Poble; and, finally, La ploma d’Aristarc (The Pen of Aristarch), which remained unpublished.

He married Carmen Eleuterio in 1918 and the couple had two daughters, Salomé and Núria, for whom he wrote Els nens de la meva escala: dites d’infants (The Kids Where I Live: Children’s Sayings – 1926). After 1919 he was in charge of the books department in Galeries Laietanes, working as a protégé of Santiago Segura. Salvat-Papasseit, helped by his brother Miquel, would convert this department, subsequently known as the Llibreria Nacional Catalana (Catalan Nacional Bookshop), into an avant-garde focal point, in particular after a trip to Paris in 1920 when he made contact with a number of avant-garde writers. His health was very delicate and he had to spend periods in sanatoriums in Les Escaldes, Amélie-les-Bains and Vernet, a circumstance that decisively marked his work.

Following a serious personal crisis and disillusioned with socialism, he abandoned politics and wrote poetry full time until his death. Yet, besides being a poet, he was a cultural agitator as is demonstrated by the three reviews he founded: Un Enemic del Poble (1917-1919), which was at first linked with regenerationist postulates and then evolved towards futurism; Arc-Voltaïc (1918), the avant-garde model par excellence , with contributions by Joan Miró, Rafael Barradas and Joaquim Torres-Garcia; and Proa (1921), of post-avant-garde tendencies, alternating nationalist texts with poems. Another of his concerns was the creation of the publishing house Salvat-Papasseit Llibreters.

His first poem in Catalan, “Columna vertebral: Sageta de foc” (Vertebral Column: Arrow of Fire), along with the programmatic texts Sóc jo que parlo als joves (It’s Me Speaking to Young People – 1919), Concepte de poeta (Concept of a Poet – 1919) and the manifesto Contra els poetes amb minúscula: primer manifest català futurista (Against Small-p poets: A First Futurist Catalan Manifesto – 1920), are a call for poetry that approximates Marinetti’s futurism, Apollinaire’s esprit nouveau, Pierre Albert-Birot’s nunism, and even the regenerationism of Joan Maragall, especially because of the vitalism they express. He sporadically wrote for La Revista, Vell i Nou, La Publicitat and La Mainada among other publications. He is also one of the few avant-garde Catalan writers who published in the Spanish-language review Grecia.

There are six volumes of his poems: Poemes en ondes hertzianes (Poems in Hertzian Waves – 1919), illustrated by Rafael Barradas and Joaquim Torres-Garcia, this book expressing his discovery of futurism and his quest for his own brand of poetry; L’irradiador del port i les gavines (The Port Beacon and the Gulls – 1921), a continuation of the earlier work but delving deeper into his futurist findings; Les conspiracions (Conspiracies – 1922), a book of eight nationalist-inspired poems written during his stay in the La Fuenfría sanatorium (Cercedilla); La gesta dels estels: mostra de poemas (Epic of the Stars: A Sample of Poems – 1922), where he embarks on a process of mythologizing everyday reality through elegy and longing; El poema de la rosa als llavis (The Poem of the Rose on the Lips – 1923), a unitary amorous poem, and, finally, Óssa Menor: fi dels poemes d’avantguarda (Ursa Minor: An End to Avant-garde Poems – 1925), with illustrations by Josep Obiols, a work that was published posthumously and in which Salvat-Papasseit abandons everyday concerns to surrender himself to the anguish and proximity of death.

He died of tuberculosis at the age of thirty. His life and work were always devoted to an exaltation of youth, freedom, sincerity, heroism and struggle.
His poems have been set to music by several Catalan singers and have been translated into a number of languages. Numerous monographic studies on his life and work have been published in a range of reviews and homage has been rendered to the poet on many occasions.