The Valencian poet Angels Gregori Parra (Oliva, 1985) returns to the new work of the collection ‘Sombras’ dedicated an anthology of women’s poems in different languages, writers in Catalan Antònia Vicens, Marta Pessarrodona, Margarita Ballester, Teresa Pascual, Vinyet Panyella, Cèlia Sànchez-Mústich, Dolors Miquel, Susanna Rafart, Maria Josep Escrivà, Gemma Gorga, Àngels Callum Marzo, Anna Callí, Maria L. Gual, Maria Sevilla and Raquel Santanera. Born in 1991, he was born in the early years.
Movement of shadows
Angels Gregori (ed.)
Bilingual edition. Vaso Roto, 2025. 137 pages. €23
Gregori Parra states this in a short prologue “Creating an anthology is never a bureaucratic task” and it is inevitable that personal taste comes into play.
More than justified, celebrate the lesson that “the vitality of our poetic tradition” is “more present than ever in poetry written by women,” here represented by “three simultaneous generations.”
At the end of the volume there is a list of the respective trays and you should not pay attention to the number of awards and honors that most are waiting for.
As happens with these works, the reader discovers voices he was unaware of when writing in another language. This is not the case with everyone: Antònia Vicens (Premio Nacional de Poesía in 2018) or Marta Pessarrodona are mainly known and Anna Gual reseñamos has very little to do with the book. They are not the only ones that have been translated into Spanish.
It would separate the similarity of tones; In fact, I was trying to generalize about contemporary Catalan poetry and specifically because of its affinity with the Anglo-Saxon era.
As a reader, rather in the light of the highly positive evaluation of the set, I will present it through an anthology of the works of Pessarrodona, Panyella, Rafarta, Marzo, Calafella, Callís and Gual.
Poems such as “Londres, 1967”, “Taller Cézanne”, the de Rafart sixes, “El rostro nival”, “Épica II”, “Venías hacia mí…” and “La pasión”. Ten is as poetic as ten homes, says Gregori, inspired by Philip Levine.
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