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Book by Estelles, Vicent Andres
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Text: English (translation)
Original Language: Catalan
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Original Language: Catalan
Estelles introduces his muse as the "immortal beloved . . . inexorable goddess"--the statuesque beauty all too recognizable in a thousand other poems. Then, slyly subverting worn-out convention, he dumps her in a forest where suddenly she begins "growing in soft / steady rain." But she cannot fulfill a terrestrial life's promise of fecundity, achieving instead only a kinship with "trees / that fruitlessly grow." Throughout this Catalan poet's work--first appearing in English here via renowned translator Rosenthal--the "formal and refined . . . cracks up, comes apart" only to become "an everyday pile, vaguely adorable." The failure of a meaningful transposition of the high and the timeless into the mundane results in a bitter sense of belatedness. The stately guest of "The Paris Hotel" spends his days awaiting a mysterious phone call, which comes when he descends "the stairs, / feet first, on four men's shoulders." Given Estelles's remorseful, past-haunted sensibility, Rosenthal's claim in his introduction that Estelles inspired a poetic awakening in Catalan seems ironic. Yet the poems at the volume's end--presumably Estelles's later work, though the reader is not given the assistance of dates--do reveal a strength and simplicity rooted in the Catalan landscape.
Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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- PublisherPersea Books
- Publication date1992
- ISBN 10 0892551720
- ISBN 13 9780892551729
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages80
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