Book record
Path to the Sea
Liliana Ursu
Translated from Romanian by Adam J. Sorkin, Tess Gallagher
Path to the Sea, by Liliana Ursu and translated by Adam J. Sorkin, Tess Gallagher from Romanian, brings Romanian-language poetry from Romania into English through Romanian movement toward the sea, Liliana Ursu's path-making, and the lyric as a route rather than a destination. 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 sea, path, travel, and the gradual widening of perception as the poem approaches water, 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. Path to the Sea belongs in the translated poetry library because it adds another Romanian voice of journey, landscape, and contemplative patience.
- Published
- 2011
- Publisher
- Pleasure Boat Studio: A Literary Press
- Language
- Romanian
- Country
- Romania
- ISBN
- 9781929355754