Still Life with Children by Francesc Parcerisas and translated by Cyrus Cassells

This is poetry from Spain.

Still Life with Children by Francesc Parcerisas translated by Cyrus Cassells is published by Austin State University Press, Stephen F.. This is a Book originally written in Catalan. This was published in 2019.0 and has the ISBN of 9.781622885435E12.

Still Life with Children, by Francesc Parcerisas and translated by Cyrus Cassells from Catalan, brings Catalan-language poetry from Spain into English through Catalan still life, childhood, and Francesc Parcerisas’s ability to hold domestic scenes until they begin to tremble. The metadata gives the reader a doorway, but the real value is what happens once the poem starts making its own weather. I would read it for children, room, stillness, and the quiet unease of looking closely at ordinary life, not as a fixed lesson about Spain. The best entry point is still the poem itself: the line that catches, the image that refuses to explain itself, the feeling that arrives before paraphrase. Still Life with Children belongs in the translated poetry library because it brings Catalan poetry into English through intimacy, memory, and visual poise.

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