"Carmen Firan’s beautiful and powerful poems, charged with gloom and passion, recreate her struggles not only with life and love, with her history and ours (and ‘its bloody hangover of the senses’), but with the beasts of language, whether invasive or voracious or fugitive. In this war of words, armed with her ‘dialect of Old Angelic,’ she indisputably wins."—Harry Mathews
Carmen Firan has published twenty books including poetry, novels, essays, and short stories in her native Romania. She has been living in New York since 2000.
April 2010