“Liliana Ursu’s poems are like flowers at the edge of the abyss. They are beautifully clear and precise, but behind them one glimpses the presence of an ineradicable dark.”—Mark Strand“Ursu writes poe
". . . full of known earthly places like the Sahara, ‘Old Russia,’ and Heathrow Airport, jumbled together like pieces of a jigsaw puzzle map of the world. Art, artifacts, things, and people partake of
‧ Award-winning author with an international profile: Cartarescu is a major European literary voice. He participated in the 2011 PEN World Voices Festival and has won the Romanian Writers' Union Prize
Shortlisted for the 2013 Best Translated Book Awards."...The poet comes into possession of an important, essential message, one that has the prestige and mystery of eternity?." ?Daniel Cristea-EnacheF