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Memory Glyphs: Three Prose Poets from Romania, Andriescu, Panta, Popescu,
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- PublishedOn
- 2009-05-01
- Title
- Memory Glyphs: Three Prose Poets from Romania
- ISBN
- 9788086264325
- Book Title
- Memory Glyphs
- Publisher
- Twisted Spoon Press
- Item Length
- 9 in
- Publication Year
- 2015
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- Illustrator
- Yes
- Item Height
- 1 in
- Genre
- Art, Poetry, Fiction
- Topic
- Anthologies (Multiple Authors), General
- Item Weight
- 12 Oz
- Item Width
- 6 in
- Number of Pages
- 176 Pages
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Publisher
Twisted Spoon Press
ISBN-10
8086264327
ISBN-13
9788086264325
eBay Product ID (ePID)
71103462
Product Key Features
Book Title
Memory Glyphs
Number of Pages
176 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2015
Topic
Anthologies (Multiple Authors), General
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Art, Poetry, Fiction
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
1 in
Item Weight
12 Oz
Item Length
9 in
Item Width
6 in
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Trade
Reviews
If you thought that Romanian only comes into the spotlight when they usher forth their teenage uber-gymnasts during every summer Olympics, well, you're missing some seriously innovative literature. --Salonica, Memory Glyphs makes a strong case for Romania's contribution to the evolution of the prose poem in the last few decades. ... In its diffuse nature, the prose poem demands both a poem and a theory of poetry. The three poets in Memory Glyphs may have little in common besides their Romanian heritage and the fact that they have individually mastered a form that few others have been brave enough to take on. For this reason, Memory Glyphs serves as an important addition to international poetics. --3:AM Magazine, Once again brilliant and energetic, Adam J. Sorkin, one of the most important and lively translators of our time, brings us a poet we hope for, and deeply need. This time it is Radu Andriescu. - Ilya Kaminsky, The enjoyable The Family Tree by Christian Popescu would surely read as well if called a memoir or essay, or simply a poem... - New Pages, Paradoxically, although Romania is a very Francophile culture, and Romanian is the only Romance language in that part of the world, what we could call the "Romanian prose poem" is less influenced by the French tradition of the prose poem, its beginnings being closer to various forms of journalism (lyrical or satirical)--still practiced in Romania, where the most common profession among writers is that of journalist. --Three Percent, In his brief but illuminating translator's preface to the work of three Romanian poets born in the 1960s, Adam J. Sorkin describes prose poems as "a formless form, oxymoronic, with both lightness and heft, a chiseled, lapidary, elliptical poetry" that, according to Radu Andriescu, is "an abnormal mode of writing, marginal, irrelevant, and bookish." But anyone interested in the form or simply in challenging and sometimes brilliant writing will see through this false modesty. --World Literature Today, A wildly roving narrative sensibility and the ability to render surreal images with poignancy and humor is a shared distinction in the work of these three poets, whose singular achievements and stylistic idiosyncrasies make Memory Glyphs a strange compound of elements, at once playful, confounding, inspiring and ultimately serious. ... Each poet ... takes his own path though darkness, humor, love, and mystery, and none is ashamed of groping aimlessly forward. The result is an unsettling pleasure, a collection of poems that grapple with our deepest questions, if only by representing the whims and cluttered wills of their authors. --Rain Taxi
Dewey Edition
22
Dewey Decimal
859.13408
Synopsis
Poetry. Southeastern European Studies. Selected and Translated from the Romanian by Adam J. Sorkin with Radu Andriescu, Mircea Ivanescu, and Bogdan Stafenescu. Some of the most groundbreaking works of European literature, such as Rimbaud's Illuminations and Baudelaire's Paris Spleen, have been prose poetry. The present volume--a substantial selection from three contemporary Romanian prose poets--draws on this tradition. Cristian Popescu experimented with personal myth by parodying his family and himself. The Bucharest found here is often sinister, cold, and dark. Displaying a mordant sensibility that could be called "urban pastoral" rather than political, he conducts his convivial disputations with God in the vernacular of the street. Iustin Panta, from Sibiu in Transylvania, is more lyrical and intimate in exploring his personal autobiography. An amalgam of form, his prose poem takes on an aura of suspended meaning, a constellation of objects, gestures, conversations, and private associations that eschews the grotesquerie and solecism found in Popescu's work. Radu Andriescu is from the artistic hotbed of Iasi, straddling the Moldavian border. His work is exuberant, direct, often manic (see his Club 8 Manifesto), and he is completely comfortable appropriating the forms of today's digital and media culture. A complex topography of language, his work ranges from the quotidian to inner meditations to fantasy, creating a texture that is thick with images and phrases often bordering on the absurd.
LC Classification Number
PC871.E3
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