The Inventor Of Love Other Writings by Gherasim Luca and translated by Julian Semilian

This is poetry from Romania.

The Inventor Of Love Other Writings by Gherasim Luca translated by Julian Semilian is published by Black Widow Press. This is a Book originally written in Romanian. This was published in 2009.0 and has the ISBN of 9.780981808871E12.

The Inventor Of Love Other Writings, by Gherasim Luca, is a Romanian poetry collection from Romania, translated by Julian Semilian, published by Black Widow Press in 2009. It is a Romanian surrealist volume where erotic invention, exile, and negation turn language into a charged machine. Luca’s work rarely behaves as if language were stable; it makes love, refusal, and derangement into forms of thinking. I would not ask the reader to solve this book before feeling it. The better invitation is to start with the image that will not quite explain itself, then follow the pressure of cadence, silence, and address. For this library, the book matters as more than a representative entry from Romania. It gives English-language readers another route into how poetry travels: not as a tidy report from elsewhere, but as a living encounter with local weather, historical pressure, and the privacy of a voice.

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