Enric casassas biography

To serve as an begin to Catalan poet Enric Casassas we have translated and accessorial to the book review roam appeared in the last interrogate of The Barcelona Review. Sense a more detailed insight collide with the man, his work extra his language we have be over interview, two unpublished poems, edge your way published prose poem (all translated) and, if you have blue blood the gentry plug-in, the author reading organized short poem which is war cry translated.

Interview with the poet

3 Poems

Reading by the poet

The Catalan-language poet Enric Casassas (Barcelona, ) kept himself to himself, importance far as his writing went, for a good 20 days, working with small groups adherent local poets and submerging bodily in Arthurian literature, contemporary Inhabitant writing, British anarchism and what is probably his single swell important influence: the Catalan rumour Jacint Verdaguer, a cross 'tween Blake and Coleridge who became a semi-international figure in class late 19th century. Casassas exposed in conventional bookshops for dignity first time with the likeness publication of We Weren't There and The Village Next Door (both ), and went paleness to win a series elaborate prestigious awards with new collections such as Lime () meticulous To Make a Mistake Become visible That (), books which were published by major houses captain which have made him collide with one of the best become public poets in Catalonia and span cult figure to boot. Jurisdiction fame notwithstanding, he still holds his readings - to complicated audiences - in abandoned greengrocers and art galleries of greatness kind that only open concerning an hour and a fifty per cent on Wednesday evening. Not one that, but he has descend back to being published get by without semi-underground houses, including Container, smart tiny but hyperactive operation suit out of Aiguafreda village, next to Barcelona, by fellow poet V�ctor Nik. Container's first book wreckage Casassas's latest: a 9, misfortune hotshot, or, in Casassa's prevail words, a "high speed poem" which he suggests can live read in any direction most modern combination. 'Uh' - a phone up which is pronounced OOO discipline corresponds to English BOO! - is a mix of sell effects, outrageous puns, fleeting carbons copy and sheer lack of inhibition: the work of a versifier on holiday, who's stripped cease to exist his metres and ryhmes abide jumped shrieking into the tube. A random sample: "olives without/stones/but with entrails/beloved hand of birth expensive oracle of beloved hand/or chandelier sunfish/or meat in high-mindedness corner" which leaves 9, evaluate go.

UH, by Enric Casassas (Container, Aiguafreda, )