El saltamartí / The Tumbler Langs een helling Sorcerer is a book about

Sorcerer is a book about the pleasures of being together and being alone

The ground-breaking work of the poet who paved the way for generations of women writers

is polyvalent in its voice and range

dreamlike collection

Ostensibly a poem about death

El saltamartí / The Tumbler Langs een helling Sorcerer is a book aboutJoan Brossa (trans. Cameron Griffiths) In The Tumbler, traditional poetic stanzas sit side by side with a more liberated poetic form one Brossa referred to as a synthetic poetry in which he employs a straightforward, everyday language (it is the language of the working classes with which he identifies). Always the innovator, Brossa reinvigorates this language so as to evince an accessible and archly political poetry that demands our critical and