Hands behind My Back: Selected Poems
"If anybody except a poet were saying the things Sorescu says in his poems, he or she would be found insane. But this is what poetry should be doing, putting this kind of material into rational form." (Russell Edson) In this collection the Romanian's poems are expertly translated by two other Romanian writers and Stuart Friebert, with an introduction by noted Irish poet Seamus Heaney.
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In this collection the Romanian's poems are expertly translated by two other Romanian writers and Stuart Friebert, with an introduction by noted Irish poet Seamus Heaney.
Introduction AFTER THE CREATION After the Creation Between Stars Getting Used to Your Name Giddyup!\ Hide and Seek Under the Door And Everything Slips Easily Away...\ Apparition The House Lightning Passed...\ Segment Burglars Glimmer Prayer My Soul, You're Good at Everything Elegy SUBJECTIVISM Subjectivism Spiral Orbit Game Paintings The Path Pliers Water of Life, Water of Death About You Perspective Group Launching I Can't Pass onto Anyone I Stopped Right by the Tragic WHERE WE FORGET Where We Forget Eyelashes Reminiscences Precaution Dream Signs The Sacred Fire Rift Ouch! Ouch!\ Mourning Matinal Let's Help Look In the Sky Passport Pedestrian Egg Death Is a Miracle Too Descent Bocca Di Leone Fire and Water Laurel Hymn HISTORY AS THERAPY History As Therapy Pure Conversation with a Chinese Character Fossil Hittite Cognition Cavafy Good Advice The Hermit Lazarus' Resurrection The Ground Laocoon Fresco Village Museum Used Bookseller Statue Ulysses Troy Shakespeare Hamlet, In Search Poisoned Chess The Executioner with Seven Hands and the Victim with Seven Heads MIRACLE Miracle Minus the Sea The Mountains Secret Transfusion Pueblo The Pluperfect Insight For the Birds Who've Disappeared With Their Fingertips The Match The Snail Oscillations A Cat Hyena Whim Alphabet As If Prayer II
