and the imagination
and two volumes translated by Forrest Gander
] – she is the one by whom the language lives’
This is a poet whose themes and variations remain consistent: a deep affection for his roots in West Wales
His poetry is a marvel of syncretism: Billie Holiday
Maps of Desire by Manuel Forcano, translated by Anna Crow <br><b>PBS Recommended Translation Autumn 2019 </b> Donald Gardner and the imaginationManuel Forcano, the outstanding Catalan poet, is a great traveller, and the poems in this, his first full length book in English translation, embrace the cities, the landscapes and the people of the Middle East. Drawn from his four most recent collections, these poems use geographical and historical references to deepen and inform the narrative, and also to lay before the reader the idea of the continuity, over many centuries, of human love and