Romanian Poetry in Translation
Volume 28, Number 5
July-August 2007
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Translating Romanian Poetry: A Rumble
Călin-Andrei Mihăilescu’s “How We Are Untranslatable and How Nobody’s There to Care”
Paul Doru Mugur’s “Fragile Bridges: American↔Romanian Poetic Transactions”
Adam J. Sorkin’s “Finding a Destiny”
Ioana Cistelecan’s “And Now for the Totally Young…”
Reviews
Christian Moraru reviews Simona Popescu’s Lucrări în verde sau Pledoaria mea pentru poezie
Poets and Poetry
Christian Moraru translates Simona Popescu’s “Poetry Is”
Paul Cernat’s“Mircea Cărtărescu”
Julian Semilian’s Notes on Translating Nostalgia by Mircea Cărtărescu
Șerban Foarță‘s “Mircea Cărtărescu”, “The Sonnetist”
Călin-Andrei Mihăilescu’s “Tiger Writ”
Ruxandra Cesereanu’s From “Letter to American Poets”
Book Reviews
Davis Schneiderman reviews Shelley Jackson’s Half Life
Charlotte Pence reviews Robert Wrigley’s Earthly Meditations: New and Selected Poems
Renee Dodd reviews Kerry Neville Bakken’s Necessary Lies
Hadara Bar-Nadav reviews Lisa Robertson’s The Men: A Lyric Book
Allen Gee reviews Wayson Choy’s All That Matters
Kirby Olson reviews ed. John F. Barber’s Richard Brautigan: Essays on the Writings and Life
Jon Curley reviews Robert Bolaño’s Amulet
John Domini reviews Floyd Skloot’s Patient 002
Jeffrey R. Di Leo reviews Ted Pelton’s Malcolm & Jack: (and Other Famous American Criminals)
Haines Eason reviews Paige Ackerson-Kiely’s In No One’s Land
Allyson Nadia Field reviews Mary G. Hurd’s Women Director’s and Their Films
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