Translation by Pitt-Bradford Professor
Aappears in Galician Poetry Anthology
A poem translated from Galician to English by Dr. Carys Evans-Corrales, professor of Spanish at the University of Pittsburgh at Bradford, appears in the newly published “Anthology of Galician Literature 1196-1981.” Evans-Corrales said she was asked by the anthology editor Jonathan Dunne to translate the poem “Abedoeiras” or “Birches” by Aquilino Iglesia Alvariño. “The poem that I translated is from Iglesia Alvariño’s 1947 collection ‘Comaros Verdes’ (‘Green Borders’) and belongs to the Post-Spanish Civil War period of 1939 to 1981,” Evans-Corrales said. She explained that Iglesia Alvariño is known for his love of the Galician countryside. Like many Spanish poets of his period, he managed to evade the censorship of General Francisco Franco by writing “innocuously” about aspects of the area that is now officially an autonomous region of Spain under a kind of federalized system. Franco’s government was always on the alert for separatist activity from ar...