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Highlights
- ". . . full of known earthly places like the Sahara, 'Old Russia, ' and Heathrow Airport, jumbled together like pieces of a jigsaw puzzle map of the world.
- About the Author: Poet, prose writer, translator, has published seventeen books in Romania & three have been translated into English, including Zephyr's book Goldsmith Market.
- 212 Pages
- Poetry, European
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About the Book
New Romanian Poetry.Book Synopsis
". . . full of known earthly places like the Sahara, 'Old Russia, ' and Heathrow Airport, jumbled together like pieces of a jigsaw puzzle map of the world. Art, artifacts, things, and people partake of each other's humanity and objecthood. Yet there is nothing of the dispassionate butterfly-pinner about: these objects are sympathetically alive, parts of an encompassing order, like Marianne Moore's 'Nine Nectarines' . . . these poems are unlike any I've ever read: deep, beautiful, and laugh-out-loud funny."--John Ashbery
Chris Edgar's work has appeared in Best American Poetry 2000 and 2001, Boston Review, Fence, Mississippi Review, Shiny, and The Germ. Edgar won the 2000 Boston Review Poetry Prize, and he is the author of Cheap Day Return (illustrations by Trevor Winkfield; The Cube Press, 2002).
About the Author
Poet, prose writer, translator, has published seventeen books in Romania & three have been translated into English, including Zephyr's book Goldsmith Market. Ursu produces radio progams for Romania culturala in Bucharest and has received two Fulbright grants to teach at Penn State. She has also taught creative writing at the University of Louisville, KY. Sean Cotter has translated four books of Romanian poetry, including Zephyr's volume of Liliana Ursu's poetry Goldsmith Market. He worked in Romania from 1994-1996 as a Peace Corps volunteer, and from 2001 to 2002 on a Fulbright-Hays research grant.