{"product_id":"to-the-cypress-again-and-again-tribute-to-salvador-espriu-9781622882656","title":"To the Cypress Again and Again: Tribute to Salvador Espriu","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"Cyrus Cassells, a masterful poet and translator, has created a unique and powerful hybrid translation\/poetic homage to Catalunya's great twentieth-century poet Salvador Espriu. The lion's share of \u003cem\u003eTo the Cypress Again and Again \u003c\/em\u003eis a supple translation of Espriu's first book, \u003cem\u003eSinera Cemetery, \u003c\/em\u003ealong with selections from other collections. A reader will come away with a poignant sense of Espriu's beloved seaside landscape as well as, in Espriu's words, his \"precious Catalan's\/ mysterious gold\" a language that was suppressed and forbidden under Franco's regime. Cassells has given us an enduring gift to the memory of Espriu-through his personal introduction, his loving translations, followed by his own Espriu-inspired poems that evoke \"an alphabet of cypresses and sea-light,\" thus transmuting Espriu's elegiac voice into Cassells's own.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e -Sharon Dolin\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"At this particular darkening hour in Europe, we are graced by Cyrus Cassells's homage to Salvador Espriu. A survivor of Spain's civil war, who then became an internal émigré, Espriu intimately knew the cost of war and destruction. In exquisite, moving poems such as\u003cem\u003e Sinera Cemetery, \u003c\/em\u003e masterfully rendered by Cassells, we encounter Espriu's grieved, but resolute, fortitude: '\u003cem\u003eLiberty, \u003c\/em\u003ethe enduring word I utter time and again\/between ancient boundaries\/of vineyards and the sea.' Cassells's dialogue with Espriu is a gift, an enactment of the sacred pledge to uphold, against all odds, the 'enduring word.'\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e -Ellen Hinsey, author of \u003cem\u003eThe Illegal Age\u003c\/em\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e and \u003cem\u003eUpdate on the Descent\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\"To the Cypress Again and Again: Tribute to Salvador Espriu \u003c\/em\u003eis a triumph of affinities, a testament to a translator's steady, slow-burning attention to a poet's work-and to the rich metamorphoses sparked by such devotion. These charged, luminous translations exalt Espriu's stark lyrics; not just accompanying but also communicating with them, Cassells's own poems are contemplative and ecstatic. Every translation is a conversation, and I'm grateful for this book as an example of both how and why.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e -Robin Myers, translator of \u003cem\u003eCopy\u003c\/em\u003e by Dolores Dorantes\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e and \u003cem\u003eAnother Life\u003c\/em\u003e by Daniel Lipara\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Cyrus Cassells has translated more than the words of Salvador Espriu, a Catalan poet who survived what Franco wanted to bury. His translation brings a culture, a time, and an honoring of the duende that gave inner life to a 'sacramental duty' of bringing Espriu to the English language and the world poetic psyche. His own poems inspired by Espriu: 'I became all poetry, \/ all silence and verse--' are, I might say, transfigurations of exile in a native land. This book is masterful and rare in its beauty. A must read for all that value freedom and the everlasting life of a cypress.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e -Lisha Adela García, \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Literary translator and author of\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e Blood Rivers \u003c\/em\u003eand \u003cem\u003eA Rope of Luna\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Stephen F. Austin University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50692367548690,"sku":"9781622882656","price":34.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_66c3e5cc-5114-4af3-a80c-8f48057b8df5.jpg?v=1734122596","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/to-the-cypress-again-and-again-tribute-to-salvador-espriu-9781622882656","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}