TUGS IN THE FOG

In poems evoking the Spanish Civil War and its aftermath, the harshness of life in Barcelona under Franco, and grief at the death of a beloved handicapped daughter, Margarit reminds us that it is not death we have to understand but life. His poetry confronts the w orst that life can throw at us, yet what lingers in the mind is its warmth and humanity.'I highly recommend the luminous, subtle Tug s in the Fog by the Catalan poet Joan Margarit, translated by Anna Crowe. The Spanish Civil War and its after effects, and the death of his ...[Leer más]