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Six Catalan Poets is the ninth in Arc's New Voices from Europe and Beyond series of poetry in translation. It features the work of four Catalans, one Valencian and one Mallorcan - Josep Lluís Aguiló, Elies Barberà, Manuel Forcano, Gemma Gorga, Jordi Julià, Carles Torner - along with an introductory essay which sets the poets in the wider context of a culture perpetually overcoming adversity. The Catalan originals appear on facing pages alongside English translations by Anna Crowe.
Pere Ballart is Professor of Literary Theory at the Autonomous University of Barcelona.
Anna Crowe was born in Plymouth, and now lives in St Andrews, where she was involved in establishing the StAnza Poetry Festival. Two of her collections of translations of the Catalan poet Joan Margarit have been published by Bloodaxe Books: Tugs in the Fog: Selected Poems (2006, a Poetry Book Society Recommended Translation) and Strangely Happy (2011). She also co-edited the Scottish Poetry Library/Carcanet anthology of Catalan poetry, Light Off Water (2007).
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
