The greatest living Romanian poet, Nina Cassian, has written this comment about Carmen Firan's work: translated from the Romanian by Adam Sorkin and others, "Carmen Firan has many voice --almost a cho
PRAISE FOR SUZANNE GARDINIER"Gardinier is above all a poet whose language and images are completely integrated so that, in Keats's words, every rift is laden with ore."
"Mersal offers an exquisite daughter-to-father poem. Titled "The Clot," this sequence radiates with a combination of tenderness, humor and anguish unmatched in contemporary Arabic poetry."--From the
Bilingual EditionTranslated from the French and with an introduction by John Ashbery"After I began translating Pierre Martory, that is, after I began to realize that his marvelous poetry would likely
In The New Yorker, George Steiner referred to Paul Celan's prose as "a handful of speeches and a parable, which are transforming the landscape of poetic theory and the philosophy of language." He was
