Poetry. Rita Dove has called SOUL MAKE A PATH THROUGH SHOUTING "the most spectacular book I've seen in years. Not only are the poems enthralling - they are heartfelt, with that largeness of spirit found in great literature, possessing a vision that embraces and enriches. Cassells is one of the most exciting poets writing in the United States today"
Poetry. Rita Dove has called SOUL MAKE A PATH THROUGH SHOUTING "the most spectacular book I've seen in years. Not only are the poems enthralling - the...
Cyrus Cassells fourth volume of poetry is an elegiac book of heroes, a lyric homage to the artistic fathers who taught him the truth-or-bust beauty of passion transformed / into sheer compassion.
In the wake of his father s death, Cassells returned to Italy, France and Spain, countries that nurtured him as a young writer, to investigate the sources of his inspiration. Vincent Van Gogh, Cesare Pavese, Eugenio Montale, Attilio and Bernardo Bertolucci, and Garcia Lorca are among those invoked and revisited in order to brace Cassells through his mourning, and to serve as touchstones in his...
Cyrus Cassells fourth volume of poetry is an elegiac book of heroes, a lyric homage to the artistic fathers who taught him the truth-or-bust beauty...
The Mud Actor finds its most powerful images in the poems of childhood and in the moving poem, The Memory of Hiroshima . . . Cassells' ultimate testimony to the human spirit. The cumulative nature of the book is powerful, and allows us to agree with the poet at the end that 'Everything in life is resurrection'.
The Mud Actor finds its most powerful images in the poems of childhood and in the moving poem, The Memory of Hiroshima . . . Cassells' ultimate testim...
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...
Cyrus Cassells, a masterful poet and translator, has created a unique and powerful hybrid translation/poetic homage to Catalunya’s great twentieth-c...
