D. Sam Abrams

D. Sam Abrams (Beckley, West Virginia, 1952) is a free-lance poet, essayist, critic and translator based in Barcelona. Since 1984 he has translated over 25 books of modern Catalan verse into English.

Parallel Rivers
Catalan, Language, Poetry £12.00
This is joy – to be a bird, passing through the sky where a storm left forceful peace.
This is death – to close your eyes, to hear the silence as when the music begins.
Unsleeping sphere / L’esfera insomne
Catalan, Poetry, The Arts £12.99
A modern long poem in the tradition of A. R. Ammons, Allen Ginsberg or John Ashbery published in the original Catalan together with English translation by D. Sam Abrams.

D. Sam Abrams

Parallel Rivers

This is joy – to be a bird, passing through the sky where a storm left forceful peace.

This is death – to close your eyes, to hear the silence as when the music begins.

Unsleeping sphere / L’esfera insomne