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Clay and Star
Liliana Ursu
Translated from Romanian by Mihaela Moscaliuc
Clay and Star, by Liliana Ursu and translated by Mihaela Moscaliuc from Romanian, brings Romanian-language poetry from Romania into English through Romanian earth and cosmos, clay and star, and Liliana Ursu's movement between material and celestial scales. The metadata gives the reader a doorway, but the real value is what happens once the poem starts making its own weather. I would read it for clay, star, body, and the old human wish to belong both to earth and radiance, not as a fixed lesson about Romania. The best entry point is still the poem itself: the line that catches, the image that refuses to explain itself, the feeling that arrives before paraphrase. Clay and Star belongs in the translated poetry library because it brings Romanian poetry into the library through tenderness, matter, and spiritual attention.
- Published
- 2019
- Publisher
- Etruscan Press
- Language
- Romanian
- Country
- Romania
- ISBN
- 9780999753439