The Hunchbacks’ Bus / Autobuzul cu cocosati by Nora Iuga and translated by Adam Sorkin

This is poetry from Romania.

The Hunchbacks’ Bus / Autobuzul cu cocosati by Nora Iuga translated by Adam Sorkin is published by The Bitter Oleander Press. This is a Book originally written in Romanian. This was published in 2016.0 and has the ISBN of 9.780986204944E12.

The Hunchbacks’ Bus / Autobuzul cu cocosati, by Nora Iuga, is a Romanian poetry collection from Romania, translated by Adam Sorkin, published by The Bitter Oleander Press in 2016. It is a Romanian bilingual volume with a title full of bodily strangeness, public motion, and grotesque tenderness. Iuga’s poems invite the reader onto a bus where the marginal, comic, wounded, and radiant are already traveling together. I would read it first for the pressure of the translated line rather than as a puzzle waiting for its correct answer. The best version of a description for a book like this should give the reader a door, not a lecture: a little context, then permission to meet the poem through image, cadence, and affect. For this library, the book matters as more than a representative entry from Romania. It shows how poetry in translation can carry local weather, private intensity, and literary history into English without becoming merely informational.

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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