Mouths Dry With Hatred by Dan Sociu and translated by Adam Sorkin

This is poetry from Romania.

Mouths Dry With Hatred by Dan Sociu translated by Adam Sorkin is published by Longleaf Press. This is a Book originally written in Romanian. This was published in 2012.0 and has the ISBN of 9.780982929032E12.

Mouths Dry With Hatred, by Dan Sociu, is a Romanian poetry collection from Romania, translated by Adam Sorkin, published by Longleaf Press in 2012. It is a Romanian poetry volume where speech, drought, anger, and civic pressure gather in the mouth. Its title makes emotion bodily before it becomes political, which is often where the strongest poems begin. 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.

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