Poetry. Introduction by Adam J.Sorkin, who translated the collection with the author and several other Romanian translators. Mihai Ursachi 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.
Poetry. Introduction by Adam J.Sorkin, who translated the collection with the author and several other Romanian translators. Mihai Ursachi 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.