Although he was in the vanguard of the post-war poets, he also wrote hundreds of formally perfect sonnets, sapphic odes, and sestinas as well as thousands of free and direct poems.

This vision was expressed in his literary and visual works which often appeared as satirical, cutting, ironic and critical or, on other occasions, irreverent yet playful.

It is an archive of a wide and complex variety of materials, including manuscripts of his artistic and literary work (final drafts and versions), documents produced during the preparation of editions (lists, summaries, texts, proofs of printing, galerades, etc.

[3] The personal library of Joan Brossa, on the other hand, is made up of about six thousand books and many other issues of magazines that make up a collection rich in literary works, exhibition catalogues and essays on theatre, magic, cinema and other artistic expressions that interested him.

The library was catalogued by the University of Barcelona thanks to the support of the Vila Casas Foundation, in the Espai Volart, where the materials could be consulted before they were transferred to MACBA.