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Crossing the Carpathians (Oxford Poets)
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Product Description
Crossing the Carpathians is a collection of poems about exile, family, and the survival of love. Carmen Bugan was born in Romania, and her book has its origins in her experiences during the 1980s, as a child of political dissidents and as an exile from her country. Written in America, Ireland, and England, her poems are about crossing countries and languages, recording loss and celebration, reconciling memories with dreams.
Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #446348 in Books
- Published on: 2004-10-28
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Binding: Paperback
- 64 pages
Editorial Reviews
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To say these poems are beautiful is to risk underselling them. It is the specific nature of their beauty that matters, compounded as it is of dark experience, hope, magic, delight, generosity and love of language. Bugan is such a natural poet that the most apparently straightforward account of life under Ceausescu transcends its grim subject. Her love poems and poems of landscape have a freshness one can only ache for.'George Szirtes
About the Author
Carmen Bugan was born in Romania and has lived in the US and Ireland, she now lives in Oxford. She won a Hopwood Award and a Cowden Memorial Fellowship at the University of Michigan for her poetry. Her poetry is included in Oxford Poets 2001 Anthology (Carcanet).
Customer Reviews
Powerful Collection
Coleridge writes that genuine poetry is "that to which we return, with the greatest pleasure." Crossing the Carpathians is a narrative of exile and loss, but these poems--so filled with beauty and longing--stick with one like memories: brushstrokes of color and touch. Bugan's work is utterly authentic, her lyrical instincts sure. A chronicle of her family's journey out of Communist Romania to America in the late 1980s, Crossing is both tragic and celebratory. This is the best book of poetry I've read all year--I've returned to it often, and with the greatest pleasure. If you want to read the work of a subtle and interesting new writer, you can't do any better than picking up Bugan's new volume of poetry.
