“At last, a translation that does long overdue justice to the noble poetry of Salvador Espriu, one of this century’s great lyric elegists.” ―William Arrowsmith Salvador Espriu was born in 1913. A member of the so-called generation of ‘36―those who were in their twenties at the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War―Espriu became a voluntary exile in his own land. Writing in a forbidden language, hyperconscious of his historical moment, he took upon himself the task of saving Catalan for his people. In this bilingual edition, with a preface by the translator and an introduction by Francesca Vallverdú, Espriu’s friend and Spanish publisher, Magda Bogin has given us a glimpse into a remarkable body of poetry from a poet whose literary stature in Spain is akin to that o William Carlos Williams and T. S. Eliot in the English speaking world.

Selected Poems of Salvador Espriu

Literature & Fiction

Espriu, Salvador

Poetry

W.W.Norton&Company

 Considering how much poetry the great Catalan writer Salvador Espriu wrote,a representative selection is a tall order for any translator. Louis Rodrigues has limited his choice to a hundred poems, in order to highlight some of the more notable and original features -- features which challenge the ingenuity of the translator. Yet the conceptual rigour and precision of the ideas expressed and the haunting rhythms which are captured here are more than a shadow of the original.Espriu's mission was to make the Catalan language sing and survive the bleak years when Franco insisted that a unified Spain required a single tongue and forbade the use of the other national languages. The vigour -- intellectual and lyrical -- of Espriu's poems was and remains an inspiration and a consolation to all Catalan speakers.

Salvador Espriu: Selected Poems (Poetry Pleiade)

Carcanet Press Ltd.

Laia

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Antígona

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