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Books by Cyrus Cassells
  | | The Crossed-Out Swastika by Cyrus Cassells Paperback, 120 Pages, Published 2012 by Copper Canyon Press ISBN-13: 978-1-55659-379-6, ISBN: 1-55659-379-1 ""Cassells is a passionate poet whose poems touch the core of human connection through which can flow union with the infinite. Highly recommended."--Library JournalCyrus Cassells' fifth book commemorates the blazing integrity of young people caught in the vise of World War II. In its journey through the "anti-miracle" of Europe's embattled past, The Crossed-Out Swastika follows the lives of historical and semi-fictional characters to une ..." |
 | | More Than Peace and Cypresses(1st Edition) by Cyrus Cassells Paperback, 144 Pages, Published 2004 by Copper Canyon Press ISBN-13: 978-1-55659-214-0, ISBN: 1-55659-214-0 "Cyrus Cassells’ fourth volume of poetry is an elegiac “book of heroes,” a lyric homage to the “artistic fathers” who taught him “the truth-or-bust beauty of passion transformed / into sheer compassion.”In the wake of his father’s death, Cassells returned to Italy, France and Spain, countries that nurtured him as a young writer, to investigate the sources of his inspiration. Vincent Van Gogh, Cesare Pavese, Eugenio Montale, Attilio and B ..." |
 | | The World That the Shooter Left Us (Paperback) by Cyrus Cassells Paperback, 120 Pages, Published 2022 by Four Way Books ISBN-13: 978-1-954245-09-9, ISBN: 1-954245-09-2 ""Taking his cue from the Civil Rights and Vietnam War era poets and songwriters who inspired him in his youth, Cyrus Cassells presents, in a new, full-on mode, his most breathtaking and risk-taking work to date: in the wake of the Stand ..." |
 | | The Gospel according to Wild Indigo(1st Edition) (Crab Orchard Series in Poetry) by Cyrus Cassells Paperback, 112 Pages, Published 2018 by Southern Illinois University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8093-3660-9, ISBN: 0-8093-3660-X "Finalist for the Balcones Poetry Prize, 2018 Finalist for the Helen C. Smith Award for the Best Book of Poetry from the Texas Institute of Letters, 2019 Nominated for the NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literature in Poetry, 2019 Consisting of two dynamic song cycles, Cyrus Cassells’s sixth poetry volume, The Gospel according to Wild Indigo, keeps the reader on edge with a timeless and beguiling feast of language that fuses together h ..." |
 | | More Than Watchmen At Daybreak by Cyrus Cassells Paperback, 44 Pages, Published 2020 by Nine Mile Books ISBN-13: 978-1-73266-007-6, ISBN: 1-73266-007-7 "NOTE: Pre-publication orders on and after March 1, 2020. Publication date is April 6, 2020. Comment on More Than Watchmen At Daybreak, by Spencer Reece, author of The Clerk´s Tale and The Road to Emmaus: Praise be to More than Watchmen at Daybreak. Cyrus Cassells' title derives from Psalm 130. The line before? "My soul is longing for the Lord." These twelve poems log time Cassells spent in silence in a hermitage with the Benedictine Br ..." |
 | | Still Life with Children by Cyrus Cassells, Francesc Parcerisas Paperback, 150 Pages, Published 2019 by Stephen F. Austin University Press ISBN-13: 978-1-62288-543-5, ISBN: 1-62288-543-0 "Awarded the Souerette Diehl Fraser Award for Best Translation of a Book from the Texas Institute of Letters Cyrus Cassells’ vibrant translations grow on the page as though the essence of Francesc Parcerisas’ work has also moved forward in a Janus-like fashion. These translations are not simply the same poems in a different language; Cassells has crafted new poetry. The gentle and delicate rhythms of Parcerisas have been contracted into ..." |
 | | Beautiful Signor(1st Edition) by Cyrus Cassells Paperback, 112 Pages, Published 1997 by Copper Canyon Press ISBN-13: 978-1-55659-124-2, ISBN: 1-55659-124-1 "A trenchant search for beauty amidst a world ravaged by cruelty." |
 | | Soul Make a Path Through Shouting(1st Edition) by Cyrus Cassells Paperback, 96 Pages, Published 1994 by Copper Canyon Press ISBN-13: 978-1-55659-065-8, ISBN: 1-55659-065-2 "Enriched by his own world travels, Cassells draws with equal ease from Greek mythology, children's rhymes, and African-American oral traditions. The result is an hypnotic and rhapsodic interweaving of dramatic narratives forming a single whole. "Cassells's writing strikes a balance between exquisite language and an empathy for anyone who is forced to suffer."--Publishers Weekly" |
 | | To the Cypress Again and Again Tribute to Salvador Espriu by Cyrus Cassells Paperback, Published 2023 by Stephen F. Austin University Press ISBN-13: 978-1-62288-942-6, ISBN: 1-62288-942-8 "Every translation is a conversation, and I'm grateful for this book as an example of both how and why." --Robin Myers, translator of Copy by Dolores Dorantes and Another Life by Daniel Lipara" |
 | | Soul Make A Path Through Shouting(1st Edition) by Cyrus Cassells Hardcover, 75 Pages, Published 1994 by Copper Canyon Press ISBN-13: 978-1-55659-066-5, ISBN: 1-55659-066-0 "Drawing from Greek mythology, children's rhymes, and African-American oral traditions, the author of Mud Actor brings his poetry inward, searching the voices of Guernica, Auschwitz, and Terezin to find evidence of probity and persistence." |
 | | The Gospel according to Wild Indigo by Cyrus Cassells 96 Pages, Published 2018 by Siu Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8093-3661-6, ISBN: 0-8093-3661-8 "Nominated for the NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literature in Poetry, 2019 Consisting of two dynamic song cycles, Cyrus Cassells’s sixth poetry volume, The Gospel according to Wild Indigo, keeps the reader on edge with a timeless and ..." |
 | | The Mud Actor(1st Edition) by Cyrus Cassells Paperback, Published 1982 by Henry Holt & Co ISBN-13: 978-0-03-061369-2, ISBN: 0-03-061369-8 "Poems describe the author's childhood, the life of artists in nineteenth-century France, and a past life as a Japanese victim at Hiroshima" |
 | | The Mud Actor (Carnegie Mellon Classic Contemporary Series: Poetry) by Cyrus Cassells Paperback, 88 Pages, Published 2000 by Carnegie Mellon ISBN-13: 978-0-88748-325-7, ISBN: 0-88748-325-9 "—Rose Anna Higashi: "Satori" Music and blindness, the ache of pure allegiance, two kotos blending in the dead of night, a song as quiet as lust. Shunkin, I speak to you in the silence after the locusts' trill, the last chord of your samisen, the lark you called "Drum of Heaven." Under the pines, the resinous moon, the stone bears this inscription: NUKUI SASUKE Servant of Mozuya Shunkin Even in death I kneel— At first I was no more ..." |
 | | Is There Room for Another Horse on Your Horse Ranch? by Cassells, Cyrus Paperback, 122 Pages, Published 2024 by Four Way Books ISBN-13: 978-1-954245-80-8, ISBN: 1-954245-80-7 "" Is There Room for Another Horse on Your Horse Ranch? is the apotheosis of Cassells's work to elevate the mundane and the bodily to the exalted, his vigorous lyrics a routine ecstasy." |
 | | The Crossed-Out Swastika by Cyrus Cassells 120 Pages, Published 2014 by Copper Canyon Press ISBN-13: 978-1-61932-019-2, ISBN: 1-61932-019-3 ""Cassells is... a poet of conscience [and] above all a lyric poet whose alchemy makes beauty of bitterness." --Alicia Ostriker" |
 | | Into a Light Both Brilliant and Unseen Conversations with Contemporary Black Poets (Sarah Mills Hodge Fund Publication) by Malin Pereira, Cornelius Eady, Cyrus Cassells, Elizabeth Alexander, Harryette Mullen, Rita Dove, Thylias Moss, Wanda Coleman, Yusef Komunyakaa Hardcover, 260 Pages, Published 2010 by University Of Georgia Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8203-3107-2, ISBN: 0-8203-3107-4 "Malin Pereira’s collection of eight interviews with leading contemporary African American poets offers an in-depth look at the cultural and aesthetic perspectives of the post–Black Arts Movement generation.This volume includes unpublished interviews Pereira conducted with Wanda Coleman, Yusef Komunyakaa, Thylias Moss, Harryette Mullen, Cornelius Eady, and Elizabeth Alexander, as well as conversations with Rita Dove and Cyrus Cassells pr ..." |
 | | The Civil Rights Reader American Literature from Jim Crow to Reconciliation by Julie Buckner Armstrong, Amy Schmidt, Booker T. Washington, Paul Laurence Dunbar, Claude Mckay, Lillian Smith, Langston Hughes, Erskine Caldwell, Richard Wright, Ralph Ellison, Eudora Welty, Robert Hayden, Margaret Walker, Gwendolyn Brooks, James Baldwin, Flannery O'connor, Audre Lorde, Lucille Clifton, June Jordan, Michael S. Harper, Haki Madhubuti, Nikki Giovanni, Constance Curry, Toi Derricotte, Wanda Coleman, Marilyn Nelson, Rita Dove, Anthony Grooms, Cyrus Cassells, Honorée Fanonne Jeffers, Mary Burrill, Angelina Weld Grimké, Dudley Randall, Howard Sackler, Eldridge Cleaver, David Hernandez, Bebe Moore Campbell, Patricia J. Williams, Walter Mosley, Amiri Baraka, Charles W. Chesnutt, Martin Luther King Paperback, 392 Pages, Published 2009 by University Of Georgia Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8203-3225-3, ISBN: 0-8203-3225-9 "This title offers perspectives on civil rights not found in history books. This anthology of drama, essays, fiction, and poetry presents a thoughtful, classroom-tested selection of the best literature for learning about the long civil rights movement. Unique in its focus on creative writing, the volume also ranges beyond a familiar 1954-1968 chronology to include works from the 1890s to the present. The civil rights movement was a compl ..." |
 | | The Civil Rights Reader American Literature from Jim Crow to Reconciliation by Julie Buckner Armstrong, Amy Schmidt, Charles W. Chesnutt, Booker T. Washington, Paul Laurence Dunbar, Claude Mckay, Lillian Smith, Langston Hughes, Erskine Caldwell, Richard Wright, Ralph Ellison, Eudora Welty, Robert Hayden, Margaret Walker, Gwendolyn Brooks, James Baldwin, Flannery O'connor, Audre Lorde, Lucille Clifton, June Jordan, Michael S. Harper, Haki Madhubuti, Nikki Giovanni, Constance Curry, Toi Derricotte, Wanda Coleman, Marilyn Nelson, Rita Dove, Anthony Grooms, Cyrus Cassells, Honorée Fanonne Jeffers, Mary Burrill, Angelina Weld Grimké, Dudley Randall, Howard Sackler, Eldridge Cleaver, David Hernandez, Bebe Moore Campbell, Patricia J. Williams, Walter Mosley, Amiri Baraka, Martin Luther King Hardcover, 392 Pages, Published 2009 by University Of Georgia Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8203-3181-2, ISBN: 0-8203-3181-3 "This anthology of drama, essays, fiction, and poetry presents a thoughtful, classroom-tested selection of the best literature for learning about the long civil rights movement. Unique in its focus on creative writing, the volume also ranges beyond a familiar 1954-1968 chronology to include works from the 1890s to the present. The civil rights movement was a complex, ongoing process of defining national values such as freedom, justice, a ..." |
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