Book record
O tăcere aurzitoare
Magda Cârneci
Translated from Romanian by Adam J. Sorkin
O tăcere aurzitoare, by Magda Cârneci and translated by Adam J. Sorkin from Romanian, brings Romanian-language poetry from Romania into English through Romanian silence, golden hearing, and Magda Cârneci's spiritual-intellectual reach toward perception beyond speech. 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 silence, gold, hearing, and the paradox of a quiet that becomes almost audible, 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. O tăcere aurzitoare belongs in the translated poetry library because it brings Romanian poetry into English through meditative force, abstraction, and luminous inwardness.
- Published
- 2017
- Publisher
- Shearsman Books
- Language
- Romanian
- Country
- Romania
- ISBN
- 9781848615564