Solstice and Other Poems : Poems in occitan

Synopsis

[oc] Mens char (vielha edicion, libre passat) – [fr] Prix réduit (vieille édition, livre défraîchi) – [en] Discount price (early edition, worn book)

Solstice and Other Poems is the first major parallel Occitan-English publication of prize-winning Occitan and French poet Aurélia Lassaque.
In Solstice, the Call of Janus (Solstici, lo Bram de Janus), her most recent work, a woman (Bella in the English version) arrives alone amongst a rural community on the eve of the summer solstice. As annual rituals are performed, she encounters the sensual forces of a universe that questions the fixed nature of temporal and earthly borders. Dawn of Wolves (L’Alba dels Lops) brings together nineteen other poems, highly-polished fragments of a powerfully-imagined world of surreal encounters and unresolved emotions. This volume confirms Aurélia Lassaque as one of the leading contemporary voices in Occitan literature.