Violet
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VIOLET is the expression of a woman seeking, achieving and deeply experiencing romantic and sensual love. The poems follow a similar trajectory to those of the English metaphysical poet John Donne and end with the persona equally intensely soliciting the embrace of God."The most important Romanian woman poetof the second half of the Twentieth Century."-Ziarul ARGEŞUL, Piteşti, Romania"A lyrical and satisfying collection of love poems"-Proverse Prize Judges"Carolina Ilica links the passion and longing of the past with the reality of today, unafraid to reflect the vulnerability and fleetingness of passion, bringing out feelings that are both strong in their longing and delicate and fragile in their existence."-Birgit Bunzel Linder, (Shadows in Deferment (2013; Winner of the Proverse Prize 2012), Bliss of Bewilderment, 2017)."Carolina Ilica's Violet is one of those works through which we can glimpse the minds of the goddesses Aphrodite and Diana - when they hunt down Adonis - if we dare to know the minds of gods at all."-Elbert Siu Ping Lee (Rain on the Pacific Coast, 2013)"A sensuous, drench-dipped journey into the art of metaphysical conceit. It whispers of religious symbolism, yet teases with the pure shock of carnal innovation."-Hayley Ann Solomon (Celestial Promise, 2017)
Jim Kacian
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Jim Kacian is the founder of the Haiku Foundation, a nonprofit organization dedicated to archiving and promoting haiku in English, and of Red Moon Press, the largest non-Japanese publisher of haiku-related books. He lives in Winchester, Virginia.
Lidia Vianu
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Lidia Vianu, a poet, novelist, critic, and translator, is Professor of Modernist and Contemporary British Literature at the University of Bucharest, where she is also Director of the publishing house Contemporary Literature Press (http://mttlc.ro) and of the eZine Translation Café. She has been Fulbright professor at the University of California Berkeley and SUNY Binghamton. Vianu has published over 20 books of literary criticism, including The AfterMode and T.S. Eliot: An Author for All Seasons. She has also published several English learning manuals, and has translated over 70 books into English and Romanian, including two translated with Adam J. Sorkin and published by Bloodaxe, Marin Sorescu’s The Bridge (2004), winner of the 2005 Corneliu M. Popescu Prize for European Poetry Translation, and Mircea Dinescu's The Barbarians' Return (2018). She has published both in Romania and abroad: see Censorship in Romania (Central European University Press, 1997).
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