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The Starry Womb
Mihail Gălăţanu
Translated from Romanian by Adam J. Sorkin
The Starry Womb, by Mihail Gălăţanu and translated by Adam Sorkin from Romanian, brings Romanian-language poetry from Romania into English through Romanian cosmic embodiment, womb and star, and Mihail Gălăţanu's title as creation image and physical mystery. 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 womb, stars, birth, and the strange intimacy of cosmic scale entering the body, 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. The Starry Womb belongs in the translated poetry library because it gives Romanian poetry a bold metaphysical and bodily register of origin and excess.
- Published
- 2014
- Publisher
- Dialogos
- Language
- Romanian
- Country
- Romania
- ISBN
- 9781935084730