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 To the Cypress Again and Again is a supple
translation of Espriu’s first book, Sinera Cemetery, along 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.
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