El saltamartí / The Tumbler Langs een helling dreamlike collection

dreamlike collection

Ioanids werk leest als de roman van het leven van een vrouw in de ‘alledaagse onwerkelijkheid’

Lewis Warsh

Sorcerer is a book about the pleasures of being together and being alone

El saltamartí / The Tumbler Langs een helling dreamlike collectionJoan Brossa (trans. Cameron Griffiths) In The Tumbler, traditional poetic stanzas sit side by side with a more liberated poetic form one Brossa referred to as a synthetic poetry in which he employs a straightforward, everyday language (it is the language of the working classes with which he identifies). Always the innovator, Brossa reinvigorates this language so as to evince an accessible and archly political poetry that demands our critical and