Clay and Star
Selected Poems
Published on 12. November 2019
Book
Paperback/Softback
96 pages
978-0-9997534-3-9 (ISBN)
Description
In Clay and Star, Romanian poet Liliana Maria Ursu captures with breathtaking precision the convergence of the sacred with the mundane. Whether anchored in Sibiu, Visby, Skala, or San Francisco, her poems both honour and transcend place and time as they search obsessively for essence, truths, self-knowledge, and the divine within.
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Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Dimensions
Height: 226 mm
Width: 150 mm
Thickness: 10 mm
Weight
136 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-9997534-3-9 (9780999753439)
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Born in Sibiu, Romania, Liliana Ursu has published thirteen books of poetry in Romanian, most recently the selected Loc Ferit/ Haven. Her first book in English, The Sky Behind the Forest (Bloodaxe Books, 1997), translated by Adam J. Sorkin and Tess Gallagher with the poet, was shortlisted for Oxford's Weidenfeld Prize, and Lightwall (Zephyr, 2009), translated by Sean Cotter, was a finalist for the PEN USA 2010 Literary Award in Translation. Ursu, who has been awarded Romania's rank of Knight of Arts and Literature, is also the recipient of two Fulbright grants and taught creative writing at the University of Louisville and at Bucknell University. Mihaela Moscaliuc is the author of Immigrant Model (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2015) and Father Dirt (Alice James Books, 2010), translator of Carmelia Leonte's The Hiss of the Viper (Carnegie Mellon University Press, 2015), and editor of Insane Devotion: On the Writing of Gerald Stern (Trinity University Press 2016). A former Fulbright Scholar, Moscaliuc is associate professor of English at Monmouth University and visiting faculty in the Drew University MFA Program in Poetry and Poetry in Translation
Content
The Pine in the Bay 5
Poem Written on a Rainy Day about Garden Shears 6
Poem with Wax Wicket 7
Chimney Sweepers between Millenia 8
Poem in January 9
Luggage 10
Spring Fire 11
The Barn 12
Prayer 14
Dusk with Poet 15
The One Who Leaves Few Footprints in the Snow 16
Poem with Wicket in Stephen the Great's Bell Tower 17
The Light of the Psalms 18
Poem with Stairway to the Hermit's Hut 19
Father Cleopa 20
Stigmata 21
First Day at Varatec Monastery 22
If I Lift My Eyes 23
Messenger 24
Poem Composed while Being Watched by a Bird 25
In the Heart of the Forest 26
Poem with Blueberries, Fog, and Sibiu 27
History of a Couple 29
The Tower of Steps 30
Landscape with Poet 31
Painting with Late Night in Paltinis 32
Harmonia Mundi 33
The Main Square 35
The Little Square 36
Between the Wheat Wells and the Bridal Mirrors 37
The Tower of Welders 38
The Street of Measuring Scales 40
The Bridge over the Train Station 42
In the Burgh of Yesteryear 44
Healings 45
Shards of Happiness 46
Mother's Birth Year 47
Sitting at the Table with My Angel in Patmos 49
Sibiu Rain 51
The Windows of Visby 52
The Room on the Island 53
For Jean Weigl 54
And Here Goes Tess, on Nygatan Street 56
Matache Market Seen from Boston 57
Saturday with Blizzard and the Council Tower 58
Silent Tongue 60
The Biblical Garden of San Francisco 61
The Child Speaks 63
Flight Lesson at the Baltic Sea 64
Words as Gladiolas 65
Andantino 66
Poem Written on a Rainy Day about Garden Shears 6
Poem with Wax Wicket 7
Chimney Sweepers between Millenia 8
Poem in January 9
Luggage 10
Spring Fire 11
The Barn 12
Prayer 14
Dusk with Poet 15
The One Who Leaves Few Footprints in the Snow 16
Poem with Wicket in Stephen the Great's Bell Tower 17
The Light of the Psalms 18
Poem with Stairway to the Hermit's Hut 19
Father Cleopa 20
Stigmata 21
First Day at Varatec Monastery 22
If I Lift My Eyes 23
Messenger 24
Poem Composed while Being Watched by a Bird 25
In the Heart of the Forest 26
Poem with Blueberries, Fog, and Sibiu 27
History of a Couple 29
The Tower of Steps 30
Landscape with Poet 31
Painting with Late Night in Paltinis 32
Harmonia Mundi 33
The Main Square 35
The Little Square 36
Between the Wheat Wells and the Bridal Mirrors 37
The Tower of Welders 38
The Street of Measuring Scales 40
The Bridge over the Train Station 42
In the Burgh of Yesteryear 44
Healings 45
Shards of Happiness 46
Mother's Birth Year 47
Sitting at the Table with My Angel in Patmos 49
Sibiu Rain 51
The Windows of Visby 52
The Room on the Island 53
For Jean Weigl 54
And Here Goes Tess, on Nygatan Street 56
Matache Market Seen from Boston 57
Saturday with Blizzard and the Council Tower 58
Silent Tongue 60
The Biblical Garden of San Francisco 61
The Child Speaks 63
Flight Lesson at the Baltic Sea 64
Words as Gladiolas 65
Andantino 66