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Author: | Cassells, Cyrus | |
| Title: | Beautiful Signor | ||
| Publisher: | Copper Canyon Press | ||
| Pub. Date: | Fall 1997 | ||
| Description: | Unabashedly passionate, feverishly baroque, these lyrics reach back to the Song of Songs and St. John of the Cross, claiming a place in that tradition in which the body of the beloved leads to the Divine Body. Divine seems precisely the adjective for these gorgeous, operatic poems, in which Cassells reinvents himself as troubadour and dervish, visionary and diva. -Mark Doty. With Beautiful Signor, Cassells confirms his reputation as a poet of exquisite skill. These love poems are resonant, even haunting, born of an acute sensual awareness, the images like "mosaics / clarified by rain." Cassells evokes ancient ruins and turquoise seas in a song of extraordinary tenderness. Beautiful, indeed. -Martin Espada | ||
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Author: | Cassells, Cyrus | |
| Title: | More than Peace and Cypresses | ||
| Publisher: | Copper Canyon Press | ||
| Pub. Date: | Fall 2004 | ||
| Description: | More Than Peace and Cypresses is an elegiac book of heroes, a lyric homage that explores spiritual and artistic patrimony while searching for the meaning of gallantry, courage, and expression. After the death of Cassells's father, the poet returned to Italy, France, and Spain-countries that nurtured him as a young writer-to investigate the sources of his inspiration. Lorca, van Gogh, Pavese, and Montale are among the trailblazers the poet invoked, revisited, and revered in order to brace himself through his mourning. Throughout More Than Peace and Cypresses, Cassells expands the elegy to contain elements of the ecstatic, the erotic, and even the comic. While exploring flamenco culture, he witnesses unanticipated gusts of love and eroticism. His lush Andalusian poems emphasize the power of surprise and renewal. -Copper Canyon Press | ||
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Author: | Cassells, Cyrus | |
| Title: | Soul Make a Path Through Shouting | ||
| Publisher: | Copper Canyon Press | ||
| Pub. Date: | Fall 1994 | ||
| Description: | ... 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. -Rita Dove The poetry of Cyrus Cassells possesses a rare combination of qualities: an equal commitment to humanity, in its suffering and transcendence of suffering, and to language, exact words chosen to render an exact image. There is an astonishing range of vision here, encompassing AIDS victims, Afghan refugees, Holocaust survivors, a Catalan poet censored under Franco, the African-American students of Little Rock, 1957. The language is indeed exquisite, but is infused with a spirituality and compassion that lift it far beyond the realm of aesthetic niceties. -Martin Espada | ||
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