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The God's Orbit
In this, her most successful collection of poetry, Christi strikes the reader by her seraphic serenity, inspired, as she confesses, by Fra Angelico's mural paintings. In naturally flowing lines, full of a sober inner musicality, that support a painful and clear vision of life, the often inimical gods slowly turn into God, the all-pacifying.
The Barbarians' Return
For the past 50 years, Mircea Dinescu has been one of Romanian poetry's most provocative and obstinately singular poets. After starting out as a writer of highly musical poetry that he spun round in his fingers with the aplomb of a magician who refuted reality, he ended up stuck in free verse, impelled mainly because of the surrealism of a world in which the label and the content of any box seldom matched. After his first gratuitous exercises when he was 22 and striving to commit himself to love poetry, he was surprised to discover that he had created a poetry of sly political allusion. He was like that communist worker employed in a factory producing bicycle parts who, stealing a tiny wheel...
Politics and the Muse
These fourteen original essays on the politics of literature investigate aspects of our understanding of the political muse, with a focus on American writing since World War II. Essays include: "American Literature, Politics, and the Last Good War," "The Literary Art of the Hollywood Ten," "The Plight of the Left-Wing Screenwriter," and "Amiri Baraka and the Politics of Popular Culture."
Conversations with Joseph Heller
Collections of interviews with notable modern writers
The March to the Stars
Poetry. Introduction by Adam J.Sorkin, who translated the collection with the author and several other Romanian translators. Mihai Ursachi (1941-2004) is one of Romania's most eminent and original writers, and was a nominee for a Nobel Prize for Literature in 2001. He defected to the U.S. in 1981, after years of imprisonment under a repressive regime. He returned to Romania after the 1989 revolution and assumed an active role. Donald Eulert remarks the poet's "thorough modern response both to his own tradition and to the human condition at large," while Sorkin points to this poet's variety of registers: "Ursachi's rich lyrical gift led to the creation of poetry of complex beauty designed to serve as the medium for truth." The present collection is the result of several years of selection and translation, concluded in 2004, and it comprises Ursachi's best poems.
The Poetry of Men's Lives
Alive with the wisdom, artistry, and emotion of more than 250 poets from nearly one hundred countries, this anthology celebrates the multifaceted experience of contemporary manhood. The lives into which these poems invite us reveal the influences of culture, heredity, personal experience, values, beliefs, wishes, desires, loves, and betrayals. Men are notoriously reluctant to open up and discuss these things; and yet when they do--as in these poems--they tell us about their families, lovers, relationships, political and religious beliefs, sexuality, and childhoods. There is much to learn here about who men are and how they see their worlds. Collects close to three hundred poems, in English o...
The Vanishing Point that Whistles
Poetry. Translated from the Romanian by many hands. Edited by Paul Doru Mugar with Adam J. Sorkin and Claudia Serea. The poetry included in this volume reflects the alienation and the crisis of communication brought by the so-called 'transition' period of the last twenty years in Romania from the beginning of the post-communist period in 1990 to the close of the first decade of the twenty-first century. This twenty-year span was defined not only by uncertainty and fears, social inequities and misery, but also by both an enthusiasm and a hope for the future that the recent inclusion of Romania in the European Union made real.--from the introduction by Paul Doru Mugur This anthology includes p...
Memory Glyphs
Regarded as "abnormal," or a "bastard species" in Romania, the non-genre of prose poetry has produced some of the most astounding work of European literature, such as Rimbaud's Illuminations, or Baudelaire's Paris Spleen. The present volume a substantial selection of the work of three contemporary practitioners from separate parts of Romania is no exception. Cristian Popescu experimented with personal myth by parodying his family and himself. The Bucharest found here is often sinister, cold, and dark. Displaying a mordant sensibility that could be called "urban pastoral" rather than political, he conducts his convivial disputations with God in the vernacular of the street. Iustin Panta, from...
A Path to the Sea
Liliana Ursu is an award-winning and internationally acclaimed Romanian poet. A Path to the Sea, new poems translated by Ursu, Adam J. Sorkin, and Tess Gallagher, brings together poems from the poet's birthplace, her sojourns in the United States, and her adopted city of Bucharest. Among Ursu's awards in Romania's highest cultural honor, the rank of Knight of Arts and Literature.
