The Gospel according to Wild Indigo(1stEdition) (Crab Orchard Series in Poetry) by CyrusCassells 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 ..."
"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 ..."
Beautiful Signor(1stEdition) by CyrusCassells 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."
"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"
"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 Mud Actor(1stEdition) by CyrusCassells 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"
""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 ..."
Mud Actor(1stEdition) by CassellsCyrus Hardcover, Published 1982 by Henry Holt & Company, Inc. ISBN-13: 978-0-03-061371-5, ISBN: 0-03-061371-X
"Poems describe the author's childhood, the life of artists in nineteenth-century France, and a past life as a Japanese victim at Hiroshima"
Blackbird(1stEdition) How Black Musicians Sang the Beatles into Being―and Sang Back to Them Ever After (American Music History) by Kapurch, Katie, Smith, Jon Marc, Cassells, Cyrus Paperback, 272 Pages, Published 2023 by Penn State University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-271-09562-2, ISBN: 0-271-09562-8