Poeta Díaz Castro poetadiazcastro.com

Galician-language poetry read through one book of thirty-two poems.

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03

The Rexurdimento

The nineteenth-century revival that put Galician back on the page. Three poets carry it, and Nimbos stands at the far end of the line they started.

A library reading room with high shelves and long tables, an adult reading, daylight from tall windows
03The revival survives in reading rooms. Its founding books are few, and all of them short.

The entries

In pictures

A nineteenth-century book of poetry open on a dark wooden table beside a small oil lamp01

Rosalía de Castro

Cantares gallegos, 1863, made Galician a literary language again after centuries in which it was spoken but barely written.

Read this entry → A nineteenth-century printing office with a hand press and stacked printed sheets, daylight through tall windows02

Curros Enríquez

Aires da miña terra, 1880 — a combative public voice that got its author prosecuted.

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Eduardo Pondal

Queixumes dos pinos, 1886, and a bardic register built out of the coast he came from.

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The shelf

Four books put Galician back on the page. The fourth is the one this site reads.

01 Cantares gallegos1863 Rosalía de Castro, 1837–1885 The Rexurdimento becomes a fact in print: a spoken language returns to the page. 02 Aires da miña terra1880 Manuel Curros Enríquez, 1851–1908 A combative public voice out of Celanova, and a prosecution for the book. 03 Queixumes dos pinos1886 Eduardo Pondal, 1835–1917 A bardic register built out of the coast at Ponteceso, on the Costa da Morte. 04 Nimbos1961 Xosé María Díaz Castro, 1914–1990 Thirty-two poems from Editorial Galaxia in Vigo — the book this site reads.

Where the entries happen

Six places in Galicia, numbered on the map and named in the key. Each one opens the entry it belongs to.

1Guitiriz2Terra Chá3Vigo4Santiago de Compostela5Celanova6Ponteceso
  1. 1GuitirizOs Vilares, the parish where Díaz Castro was born.
  2. 2Terra CháThe flat inland country of Lugo whose speech runs through the book.
  3. 3VigoWhere Editorial Galaxia printed Nimbos in 1961.
  4. 4Santiago de CompostelaWhere Rosalía de Castro was born, in 1837.
  5. 5CelanovaCurros Enríquez’s town, in Ourense province.
  6. 6PontecesoPondal’s coast, on the Costa da Morte.

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