Full Description
History shows how Catalan culture has overcome critical situations far more adverse than the present. The Catalan language has not been replaced and this anthology contains four Catalans, one Valencian and one Mallorcan, who, although they lived through the tail end of the dictatorship, grew up under a democratic regime. Together, their work could not be more modern, comprehensive or polyphonic: politics and history cohabit with love (both heterosexual and homoerotic), learned allusion and popular image, stanzaic rigour and freedom of form, the song to the land of one's birth and hymn to the voyage. Featuring the work of six of Catalonia's leading poets - Josep Lluis Aguilo, Elies Barbera, Manuel Forcano, Gemma Gorga, Jordi Julia, Carles Torner - translated by a prize-winning translator, and with an introductory essay which sets the poets within a wider literary context.
Contents
Series editor's preface / 9, Introduction / 11, CARLES TORNER, Biography / 27, "Let us think death into the centre of life - " / 29, The Child / 31, The Plundering Angel / 29, Just Before the Fire / 31, Circus / 31, Objects / 33, Device / 35, The Red Van / 37, Abraham's Gesture / 39, Untranslating Europe / 41, GEMMA GORGA, Biography / 55, Going Back / 57, Horoscope / 57, The Aged Penelope Speaks / 59, Stones / 61, Joyeux Noel / 63, Rest / 65, We Forgot / 65, Phosphorus / 67, Little Story / 67, Landing / 69, Amusement Park / 69, The Sky Above Berlin / 71, Long Journey / 73, Distance / 73, A Woman / 75, Pomegranate / 75, Book of Minutes (extracts) / 77, MANUEL FORCANO, Biography / 83, "As dusk gathers and deepens - " / 85, "In bed, when the light is gone - " / 85, "My love is - " / 85, "It is always night - " / 85 , Ephraim's Wood / 87, Trompe L'Oeil / 87, Late / 87, At Night / 89, At the Archaeological Museum in Damascus / 89, Trebizond / 89, Exile / 91, Pindar's House / 91, The Roses of Isfahan / 93, Poetica / 93, Assault / 95, Ombra mai fu / 95, At the Cafe Sahel in Aleppo / 97, At Last / 105, Law Governing Aliens / 105, Walking Through The Call / 107, JOSE LLUIS AGUILO Biography / 111, Songs of the Tiller, XII / 113, The Secret Library / 113, The Devil's Bridges / 115, Parallelisms / 115, The Season of Shadows / 119, Words / 121, Lucifer / 121, The Attic / 123, Minotaur / 125, The Flying Dutchman / 125, I Have Lost a Few Lines / 127, Tumbleweed / 129, Reader / 131, The Contract / 133, ELIES BARBERA Biography / 137, Unlucky Mickey Mouse / 139, Autumn Leaves / 141, The Coward's Hymn / 141, Oratory / 145, Ashes to Ashes / 147, Earliest Smell / 147, 20 Nov 75, Day Of Ponds / 149, Emeralds / 149, Archaeologist / 153, Sister Anorexia / 153, Industrial Estate / 157, JORDI JULIA Biography / 163, Glances / 165, Toffee / 165, Saturday Men / 167, The Forbidden City / 169, Bad Readers / 171, Through Jungles and Deserts / 173, The Pleasure Principle / 175, Tortoises / 175, Children's Song / 177, Deep in the Flesh / 179, Looking for Roots / 181, Older Cousins / 183, The Hidden Bird / 183, When You Are Sad / 185
