Born in Utopia.Born in Utopia Carmen Firan Carmen Firan is a Romanian poet, novelist, short story writer, and playwright. Some of her works have been translated into English, recently The Second Life, a collection of novellas and short stories. , editor Talisman talisman: see amulet. talisman amulet with which Saladin cures Richard the Lion-Hearted. [Br. Lit.: The Talisman] See : Charms House PO Box 3157, Jersey City, NJ 07303-3157 1584980508 $27.95 Edited by skilled translator and poet Carmen Firan, Born in Utopia: An Anthology of Modern and Contemporary Romanian Poetry is an omnibus assembly of poetry by dozens of Romanian authors. All poems are sublimely translated into English; some are from the years of the tyrannical regime of Nicolae Ceausescu, others are during the cultural proliferation proliferation /pro·lif·er·a·tion/ (pro-lif?er-a´shun) the reproduction or multiplication of similar forms, especially of cells.prolif´erativeprolif´erous pro·lif·er·a·tion n. that followed. A one-of-a-kind treasury of Romanian pride and literary art. "The Flower-Eater": You arrived with sixteen gladioli glad·i·o·lus n. pl. glad·i·o·li or glad·i·o·lus·es 1. also glad·i·o·la Botany Any of numerous plants of the genus Gladiolus, / to pay respects to the dead. / Under my gaze, the colors live / a secret life. / For food we need only / beauty on a plate. // In the morning: saffron saffron, name for a fall-flowering plant (Crocus sativus) of the family Iridaceae (iris family) and also for a dye obtained therefrom. The plant is native to Asia Minor, where for centuries it has been cultivated for its aromatic orange-yellow stigmas (see . / For lunch: violets with mussels. / In the evening: pollen from sixteen gladioli. // Food is love as yet unborn. / On the table, among your flowers, / the body of the Lord, / offering itself eternally to all. |
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