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Sara Pujol Russell. The Poetry of Sara Pujol Russell. Noël Valis, tr. & intro. Selinsgrove, Pennsylvania. Susquehanna University Press (Associated University Presses, distr.). 2005. 123 pages. $34.50. ISBN 1-57591-099-3
THIS SELECTION OF POEMS by the contemporary Catalan poet Sara Pujol Russell was translated into English by Noël Valis, a scholar known for her contributions to modern Spanish literary and cultural studies, including her recent, award-winning volume The Culture of Cursileria: Bad Taste, Kitsch and Class in Modern Spain. For this bilingual anthology, Valis selected poems from Pujol Russell's books in Spanish, El fuego tiende su aire (1999) and lntacto asombro en la luz del silencio / El silencio del loto, la luz de las rosas (2001), and some of these poems were originally written in Catalan. In addition, there are five selections from the...