Book record
Athanor & other pohems
Gellu Naum
Translated from Romanian by Margento, Martin Woodside
Athanor & other pohems, by Gellu Naum, is a Romanian poetry collection from Romania, translated by Margento, Martin Woodside, published by Calypso Editions in 2013. It is a Romanian collection by Gellu Naum with alchemical, surrealist, and mischievously unstable energy. The title's athanor suggests transformation by heat, and the poems feel committed to language as experiment and furnace. I would read it first for the pressure of the translated line rather than as a puzzle waiting for its correct answer. The best version of a description for a book like this should give the reader a door, not a lecture: a little context, then permission to meet the poem through image, cadence, and affect. For this library, the book matters as more than a representative entry from Romania. It shows how poetry in translation can carry local weather, private intensity, and literary history into English without becoming merely informational.
- Published
- 2013
- Publisher
- Calypso Editions
- Language
- Romanian
- Country
- Romania
- ISBN
- 9780983099970