Research Catalog

Title

Tugs in the fog : selected poems / Joan Margarit ; translated by Anna Crowe.

Author

Margarit, Joan

Publication

Tarset : Bloodaxe, 2006.

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Holdings

Details

Additional Authors

Crowe, Anna

Description

174 p.; 22 cm.

Subject

• Margarit, Joan > Translations into English
• 1900-1999
• Grief > Poetry
• Spain > History > Civil War, 1936-1939 > Poetry
• Barcelona (Spain) > History > 20th century > Poetry

Genre/Form

• History
• Poetry
• Translations

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 173-174.).

Language (note)

• Translated from the Catalan.

Contents

• Poem for a frieze -- Odysseus in Ithacan waters -- On a beach in the Aegean -- Love and time -- treasure-island -- Woman of spring -- Mother and daughter at breakfast -- Beginnings and endings -- Sea-urchin -- Self-portrait -- banquet -- Midsummer night's dream -- First love -- Smiling -- Loverman -- Tugs in the fog -- Raymond Chandler -- Going to Reading -- End of the reading -- Don't throw away your love letters -- Background tenderness -- Domestic affair -- oracle -- eyes in the rear-view mirror -- My fathers's face -- Astapovo -- first frosts -- man, a woman, a city -- Old murderers among us -- Landscape near the airport -- Estacio de Franca (1946) -- Uncle Lluis -- White flowers in the mist -- Garcia Lorca Express -- Piety -- suitcase -- girl at the traffic-lights -- Drifting -- Swimming pool -- sea -- Architecture -- German teacher -- Farewell -- Initiation -- Poem in black
• Paintings from an exhibition -- Etching -- Autumn path -- Dark night in Balmes Street -- woman speaks -- Sonnet in two cities -- combination -- Son in winter -- Immigrants -- Last train -- Dawn at Cap de Creus -- At the hearing -- Philosopher in the night -- No return address -- Ghosts of the barbed-wire -- You arrived too late for your own time -- There are no miracles -- dawn at Cadiz -- Christmas lights at Sant Just -- Four o'clock in the morning -- Fontana Metro -- Mother and daughter -- Plea -- Final stroll -- One poor instant -- End -- June night -- Space and time -- Children's story -- Passenger -- Lullaby -- present and Fores -- Professor Bonaventura Bassegoda -- First summer without you -- Gravestone -- Waiting -- In the depth of the night -- Self-portrait with sea -- Young partridge -- Feeble brightness -- Writings and rooms -- On loneliness -- End of day -- Secrets -- Es Pujol
• Final struggles -- Morning in Montjuic cemetery -- Tango -- Safety -- Entenca Street -- Going past the Terramar -- About my father and mother's honeymoon -- Motorway -- Athens Airport -- Landscape of La Conca -- Structural calculations -- sons of Captain Grant -- Shipwrecks -- Bedroom -- End of a tale -- Scene -- Conversation -- age you would be now -- Inventory -- Beirut moon -- railway bridge -- Summer's seductions -- Homage -- Asking -- Insomnia -- Two photographs -- Final notice -- blackbird -- Venice -- Interior -- Van Gogh's nephew -- September beach -- Infidelities -- Window -- Three women -- Ballad of the old merchant -- Goodbye to Uncle Lluis -- dance of love -- Monument to the dead in the Korean War -- dead.

ISBN

• 9781852247515 (pbk.)
• 1852247517 (pbk.)

LCCN

^^2007390541

OCLC

• 70765870
• SCSB-12659402

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library