New Leaves

<p>&lsquo;Poetry is the taste of thinking in the mouth,&rsquo; writes translator Er&iacute;n Moure in introducing <em>New Leaves</em>. In the face of so much migration and precarity, poet Rosal&iacute;a de Castro sets herself to thinking and recognizes repetition as key to humanity; she views the social as intimate; she creates poems in dialogue so that subjectivity reverberates; she examines the notion of home and articulates the effects of migration on women, the widows. &lsquo;Thinking,&rsquo; continues Moure, &lsquo;fills the absence when love and hope are missing.&rsquo; <em>New Leaves</em> confronts the conundrum of human existence and the injustices suffered by those left behind in the fight (flight) for (economic) survival. As such, Rosal&iacute;a de Castro is our contemporary in our own times of migration. <em>New Leaves</em> was her second and last major work of poetry in the Galician language, after <em>Galician Songs</em>, and is here presented in award-winning poet Er&iacute;n Moure&rsquo;s memorable translation.</p>