Night with a Pocketful of Stones is the Romanian poet Traian T. Coșovei's first book in English. Coșovei, who died in 2014, was a significant figure in contemporary Romanian poetry. These new translations by Adam J. Sorkin and Andreea Iulia Scridon show an eccentric and original mind rubbing up against the rules and rubric of his day, threshing new colours from the night, lifting a veil, to paraphrase Shelley, from the hidden beauty of the world.
Night with a Pocketful of Stones is the Romanian poet Traian T. Coșovei's first book in English. Coșovei, who died in 2014, was a significant figure in contemporary Romanian poetry. These new translations by Adam J. Sorkin and Andreea Iulia Scridon show an eccentric and original mind rubbing up against the rules and rubric of his day, threshing new colours from the night, lifting a veil, to paraphrase Shelley, from the hidden beauty of the world.
Coșovei is 'undoubtedly one of the purest, most original, and most
valuable poets of his generation'. - Mircea Cărtărescu (Nobel Prize
candidate)
'A craftsman-poet of extraordinary ability' - Emilia David
'Coșovei's poetry presents itself as an uninterrupted negotiation.
Which means a tension of expression, straining and production. This
is where his lyricism emerges. (...) Only rarely has a writer
succeeded in balancing in such a nuanced manner the abundant
spontaneity of his own language and the constrictive ambition of
order as Coșovei has.' - Cosmin Ciotloș
'Decidedly the locomotive of a new generation' - Teodora
Dumitru
'One of Bucharest's universal poets' (...) 'Traian is a Lord, a
Master of Verse (...) a Gentleman among the poets of his generation
and, in genere, the Romanian-language poets of today.' - Nicolae
Țone
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