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Seizure of the Beast
Serea Militaru
Translated from Romanian by Claudia Serea
Seizure of the Beast, by Serea Militaru and translated by Claudia Serea from Romanian, brings Romanian-language poetry from Romania into English through Romanian beast-seizure, body, and Serea Militaru's charged encounter with animal force. 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 beast, seizure, body, and the moment when instinct interrupts civility, 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. Seizure of the Beast belongs in the translated poetry library because it adds Romanian poetry as a field of transformation, threat, and visceral imagination.
- Published
- 2023
- Publisher
- Guernica Editions, Incorporated
- Language
- Romanian
- Country
- Romania
- ISBN
- 9781771838481