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Cyrus Cassells has perfected a poetics of merciful vitality and tenderness, celebrating eros -- in his daring and prolific representation of lust, yes, but more broadly in his understanding of the erotic as an affirmation and preservation of life -- through time and space. Beginning his latest collection with the piece "You Be the Dancer, " he bids us return to sacred sites of nostalgia, insisting on it "whether we're feeling frisky, / Empty-h...

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 ...

In the aftermath of the Stand Your Ground killing of his close friend's father, poet Cassells explores, in his most fearless book to date, the brutality, bigotry, and betrayal at the heart of current America. Taking his cue from the Civil Rights and Vietnam War era poets and songwriters who inspired him in his youth, Cassells presents The World That the Shooter Left Us, a frank, bulletin-fierce indictment of unraveling democracy in an embattle...

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Cyrus Cassells' vibrant translations grow on the page as though the essence of Francesc Parcerisas' work has also moved forward in a Janus-like fashion. These translations are not simply the same poems in a different language, Cassells has crafted new poetry.

Consisting of two dynamic song cycles, Cyrus Cassells's sixth poetry volume, The Gospel according to Wild Indigo, keeps the reader on edge with a timeless and beguiling feast of language that fuses together history, memory, and family.

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'.

Cassells is... a poet of conscience [and] above all a lyric poet whose alchemy makes beauty of bitterness.” -Alicia Ostriker

A lyrical "book of heroes" about the role of art, creation, and inspiration.

A trenchant search for beauty amidst a world ravaged by cruelty.

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