Book record
Last Wing
Ion Deaconescu
Translated from Romanian by Veronica Lungu
Last Wing, by Ion Deaconescu, is a Romanian poetry collection from Romania, translated by Veronica Lungu, published by Cross-Cultural Communications in 2019. It is a Romanian collection built around flight, aftermath, and the fragile remains of spiritual motion. The title already feels like a final gesture toward air, a wing still trying to remember what lifting once meant. I would not ask the reader to solve this book before feeling it. The better invitation is to start with the image that will not quite explain itself, then follow the pressure of cadence, silence, and address. For this library, the book matters as more than a representative entry from Romania. It gives English-language readers another route into how poetry travels: not as a tidy report from elsewhere, but as a living encounter with local weather, historical pressure, and the privacy of a voice.
- Published
- 2019
- Publisher
- Cross-Cultural Communications
- Language
- Romanian
- Country
- Romania
- ISBN
- 9780893046828