Wheel With a Single Spoke
and Other Poems
Published on 13. July 2012
200 pages
978-1-935744-42-9 (ISBN)
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Winner of the Herder Prize, Nichita Stanescu was one of Romania's most celebrated contemporary poets. This dazzling collection of poems - the most extensive collection of his work to date - reveals a world in which heavenly and mysterious forces converse with the everyday and earthbound, where love and a quest for truth are central, and urgent questions flow. His startling images stretch the boundaries of thought. His poems, at once surreal and corporeal, lead us into new metaphysical and linguistic terrain.
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Nichita Stanescu (1933-1983) was the most beloved and groundbreaking Romanian poet of the twentieth century. Stanescu transformed Soviet-style aesthetics from within, infusing the tangible world with a metaphysical vocabulary all his own. Stanescu received the Herder Prize in 1975 and was nominated for the Nobel Prize in 1979.
Sean Cotter's translations from the Romanian include Liliana Ursu's Lightwall and Nichita Danilov's Second-hand Souls. His essays, articles, and translations have appeared in Conjunctions, Two Lines, and Translation Review. He is Associate Professor of Literature and Literary Translation at the University of Texas at Dallas, Center for Translation Studies. Cotter's translation of Mircea Cartarescu's Blinding is also available from Archipelago.
Sean Cotter's translations from the Romanian include Liliana Ursu's Lightwall and Nichita Danilov's Second-hand Souls. His essays, articles, and translations have appeared in Conjunctions, Two Lines, and Translation Review. He is Associate Professor of Literature and Literary Translation at the University of Texas at Dallas, Center for Translation Studies. Cotter's translation of Mircea Cartarescu's Blinding is also available from Archipelago.
Content
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Table of Contents
- Acknowledgments
- THE SENSE OF LOVE (Sensul iubrii, 1960)
- The Airplane Dance
- End of an Air Raid
- A VISION OF THE FEELINGS (O viziune a sentimentelor, 1964)
- In Praise of People
- Song on an Aluminum Scaffold
- The Lion Cub, Love
- To Peace
- Sentimental Story
- I Remember, Still Amazed
- One Thursday, with Love
- Song Without an Answer
- A Poem
- End of a Season
- Autumn Love
- THE RIGHT TO TIME (Dreptul la timp, 1965)
- The Right to Time
- Bas-relief with Heroes
- Enkidu
- Ars Poetica
- The Chariot
- Savonarola
- Bas-relief with Lovers
- Song
- [To the right, and then to the left]
- To Galatea
- Old Soldier's Song
- Sad Love Song
- To Bend the Light
- II ELEGIES (11 Elegii, 1966)
- The Second Elegy, in the Style of the Getes
- The Fourth Elegy
- The Fifth Elegy
- The Eleventh Elegy
- ALPHA (Alfa, 1967)
- Raid on the Interior of Stones
- Surface
- You Might Think I Was a Tree
- A Sleep with Saws Inside
- Ulysses
- VERTICAL RED (Rosu vertical, 1967)
- A Soldier
- EGG AND SPHERE (Oul si sfera, 1967)
- Fate
- Smelling a Flower
- Winter Ritual
- Medieval Letter
- Invocation
- Eye Snow
- Angel Holding a Book
- Transparent Wings
- The Young
- President Baudelaire
- LAUS PTOLEMAEI (Laus Ptolemaei, 1968)
- The Atmosphere
- Reading
- On Contemplative Beings, What They Say, and Some Advice I Would Give Them
- A Few General Statements on Speed
- On the Life of Ptolemy
- On the Death of Ptolemy
- Field
- An Argument with Euclid
- UNWORDS (Necuvintele, 1969)
- Paean
- Loss of an Eye
- Jacob Battles the Angel
- Or, On the Idea of "You"
- The Battle Against Five Antiterrestrial Elements
- The Heart's Battle Against Blood
- [I slept with all my bones along a sword blade]
- Sleeping and Waking
- Decree
- [The beating moon inches across the roof of the mouth]
- Mime
- Poetry
- Song of Three
- Laughs and Tears
- Murderous Memory
- It Was Crushed Music
- I'm So Tired I Can't Go On, He Said
- Brusque Speech
- You Leave Your Scent
- [You leave the air with your scent]
- The Jester and Death
- Contemplation
- Pulse
- Law
- Ode to Joy
- Undeciphered Inscription
- Where They Go
- Scent on a High Hill
- The Sacrifice and Burning of Everything
- What Is Life? When Does It Start, and Where Is It Going?
- Noose
- What Is the Supreme Power That Drives the Universe and Creates Life?
- What Is a Human? What Are His Origins? What Fate Awaits Him?
- The One Who Eats Dragonflies
- Who Am I? What Is My Place in the Cosmos?
- Atavistic Melancholy
- Idols of the Grass
- Fruits Before Being Eaten
- Air Currents
- Tragedies in Peacetime
- Ars Poetica
- Song
- Self-Portrait in an Autumn Leaf
- Time
- Passage . . .
- Mirage
- So I'll Stay
- I, That Is, He
- Poem
- What?
- Game Delay
- Tennis
- Unwords
- A LAND CALLED ROMANIA (Un pamânt numit România, 1969)
- Cain and Abel
- DOLCE STIL CLASSICO (În dulcele stil clasic, 1970)
- Loss of Consciousness Through Cognition
- Soul of Mine, Psyche
- Myth
- BELGRADE IN FIVE FRIENDS (Belgradul în cinci prieteni, 1972)
- To Buy a Dog
- Vitrification
- Fear
- Eye Depth
- Fading
- Signal
- A Poet, Like a Soldier
- While
- Ritual
- Way of Speaking
- Carriage for a Butterfly
- Little Colored Glasses
- On the Thickest
- Drawing Lots
- Dialogue Between a Horse and the Good Lord
- Serbs
- Song to Encourage the God Andia
- [The dogs of your father barked]
- [Inside me screams my heart]
- [What kind of freight train are you]
- Bloodmobile
- Eminescu
- Cold Balance of the Stars
- Letter
- GRANDEUR OF THE COLD (M aretia frigului, 1972)
- Transformation
- 5, 4, 3, 2, 1, 0
- Beauty-Sick
- Ars Amandi
- And If
- EPICA MAGNA (Epica magna, 1978)
- Paean
- Wheel with a Single Spoke
- Soldier Oedipus
- Self-Portrait
- Eye Squared
- Oration
- Forward Movement
- To Feed Me from Your Hand
- Haiku
- Another Haiku
- Tableau with Blind People
- Wedding Toast
- IMPERFECT WORKS (Operele imperfecte, 1979)
- Lesson on a Cube
- Hourglass
- Jacob and the Angel
- Lesson on a Circle
- KNOTS AND SIGNS (Noduri si semne, 1982)
- Through an Orange Tunnel
- Knot 17
- Sign 14
- Knot 23
- Sign 18
- Sign 19
- Knot 31
- Knot 33. In the Quiet of Evening
- Translator's Afterword
