In this session I present the profile and some representative poems of „the most attractive ugly woman who achieved greateness in Romanian Poetry” (Alex Stefanescu). Nina Cassian is certainly in the top 10 Romanian poets for me. She has done it all, and done it exceptionally well, from aburdist-surreal, to socialist-realism, to romantic, to post-modern, […]
You can count on one hand the living, poets who are represented with more than one poem in the volume Testament – 400 Years of Romanian Poetry (authors Daniel Ionita – with Daniel Reynaud, Adriana Paul and Eva Foster – Minerva Publishing – 2019). Camelia Radulian is one of them. Her lyrical voice is as […]
In this 12th episode of our journey through Romanian Poetry in English, I will present to you a poet with who’s verse I resonate the most. The rebel and antagonist in me (and there is a LOT of that…) – latches onto his poetry… …initially pigeonholed as a neo-symbolist (by critics like George Călinescu, mainly […]
The fourth session in the journey of discovery of Romainan poetry in English, we discuss Romania’s best know writer, and national poet, Mihai Eminescu. Only Luis de Camoes in Portugal, and maybe Shakespeare in the English-speaking world, might rival Eminescu in relation to the influence upon the culture and language of their countries. The poems […]
This session deals deals with the poems of the one-man-band of Romanian poetry, as Nicolae Manolescu labelled him, beacuse Arghzei reinvents himesel with every volume and soemtimes within a single volume. I have him in may top 3 Romanian poets. Who is the other one? I will keep that to mysemf. We reprezent four of […]
Testament – Anthology of Romania Verse – American Edition – Book Launch at the Romanian Cultural Institute – New York, March 2017. With the participation of Daniel Ionita (editor and principal translator), Associate Professor Daniel Reynaud (musician and assistant translator), Dr. Mircea Suciu – Director of the Romanian Cultural Institute – New York, actress Annelise […]
Lansarea volumului Testament 400 de ani de poezie românească / 400 Years of Romanian Poetry (Editura Minerva) – autori Daniel Ionita asistat de Daniel Reynaud, Adriana Paul și Eva Foster – Cluj-Napoca – Muzeul de Artă – 20 Noiembrie 2019. Cu prezența poeților Adrian Popescu (prezentatorul volumului), Hanna Bota, Eva Precub și Adriana Meșter, a […]
Daniel Ionița (anthologist and princiapl translator) and his colleagues Professor Daniel Reynaud, Dr.Adriana Paul and Eva Foster – receiving the "Antoaneta Ralian" Prize for Translation at the Gaudeamus Bookfair – Bucharest 2019 – for the volume Testament – 400 Years of Romanian Poetry (Minerva Publishing) Testament – 400 de ani de poezie românească (Editura Minerva) […]