Seizure of the Beast by Serea Militaru and translated by Claudia Serea

This is poetry from Romania.

Seizure of the Beast by Serea Militaru translated by Claudia Serea is published by Guernica Editions, Incorporated. This is a Book originally written in Romanian. This was published in 2023.0 and has the ISBN of 9.781771838481E12.

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.

If you’d like to see international poetry continue and gain traction, consider requesting this work from your local library, or purchasing it from places like Open Books (a poetry only bookstore), Asterism Books (an independent press distributor), or bookshop.org to connect you with your local bookstores.

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