by Daniela Crasnaru
Translated by Adam J. Sorkin
New American Translations
Series
In this ambitious collection, the first North American translation
by one of Romania's most important writers, Daniela Crasnaru
tackles such diverse subjects as the concepts of civilization
and nature, self, organized religion, totalitarian politics
and the redemptive work and limitations of poetry. Sea-Level
Zero is translated by Adam J. Sorkin, considered one of this
country's leading translators of Romanian poetry.
Contest Image
A
busload of blind
tourists
making
an around-the-world tour
click
click their cameras flash
focused
on reality
oh,
says the reality
this
fat little girl
delicately
clutching the hem of her skirt
curtsying
gracefully
oh,
repeats the jury of the unseeing
in
this planetary contest
for
cartoons
a
prize for an image
which
doesn't exist
it's
OK it's great it's super
Available editions:
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Cloth
ISBN: 1-880238-79-9
Price: $13.50
Publishing Date: October 1999
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