Wood Asleep: Bois Dormant

ISBN-13: 9781852244323 / Francuski / Miękka / 2003 / 160 str.

Gerard Mace; David Kelley

Opis

The late Romanian poet Marin Sorescu had a great fondness for Ireland. Several Irish poets have translated his work, including Paul Muldoon, in the recent Romanian poetry anthology, When the Tunnels Meet, and Seamus Heaney and Michael Longley, whose translations appear in Sorescu's collection, The Biggest Egg in the World. In 1991, while in Belfast for the opening of an exhibition of his paintings (Sorescu started painting while under house arrest during the 1980s), a group of young Irish poets honored him by reading their personal choice of his poems in English translations. Sorescu responded by arranging for ten young poets from his home region of Craiova to translate the ten Irish poets for a book to be published in Romania. Sorescu's Choice is the companion English anthology, with versions of the work of the same ten Romanian poets by the same Irish writers.

Irish poets included are Ruth Carr, Peter McDonald, Patrick Ramsey, Martin Mooney, and Janet Shepperson, while Romanian poets include Amelia Calujnai, Ion Munteanu, Grigore Balanescu, Florea Miu, and Carmen Firan.