Rock and Dew: Selected Poems
The greatest living Romanian poet, Nina Cassian, has written this comment about Carmen Firan's work: translated from the Romanian by Adam Sorkin and others, "Carmen Firan has many voice --almost a choir--which she controls equally, be they lyrical or realistically uttered, ideas turning to poetry, and poetry breathing ideas. That's the strength and originality of her Rock and Dew." It has also been said by Andrei Codrescu that since moving to New York Firan has been writing poems that explore...
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The greatest living Romanian poet, Nina Cassian, has written this comment about Carmen Firan's work: translated from the Romanian by Adam Sorkin and others, "Carmen Firan has many voice —almost a choir—which she controls equally, be they lyrical or realistically uttered, ideas turning to poetry, and poetry breathing ideas. That's the strength and originality of her Rock and Dew." It has also been said by Andrei Codrescu that since moving to New York Firan has been writing poems that explore the New World with an "exciting view of life, love, and the meaning of existence, through the eyes of a renowned East European poet."
INHABITED WORDS stars and crosses the shirt of water soon eclipse differences real estate reincarnation crackups counter-season letter from the world's metropolis requiem for the sinking city a peaceful afternoon face to face what we weren't given obsessions conspiracy chaos halves uncoupling the year of the dog heirlooms pageants absence game the place where no one dies comedown the tyranny of the word delirium suppositions the banquet leftovers rock and dew counterfeits last impression darkness appears to us false memories from above it looks just the same meeting the caretaker of dreams impromptu faces where colors still have sound MY SLEEP IS NOT MY OWN my sleep is not my own to the very last high subterranean galleries the woman of sand the end in India blue poems it snowed- that's all in the absence of love what remains the wandering Quixote shiny soles under the same moon paradoxes of sleep submarine steps from beyond tea for one wine-dark love life's truth for the last time almost the same memorials palms desire hemispheres
