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Crossing the Carpathians
Carmen Bugan
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Description for Crossing the Carpathians
Paperback. Crossing the Carpathians is a collection of poems about exile, family, and the survival of love. Num Pages: 64 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 215 x 135 x 5. Weight in Grams: 102.
Crossing the Carpathians is a collection of poems about exile, family, and the survival of love. Carmen Bugan was born in Romania, and her book has its origins in her experiences during the 1980s, as a child of political dissidents and as an exile from her country. Written in America, Ireland, and England, her poems are about crossing countries and languages, recording loss and celebration, reconciling memories with dreams.
Crossing the Carpathians is a collection of poems about exile, family, and the survival of love. Carmen Bugan was born in Romania, and her book has its origins in her experiences during the 1980s, as a child of political dissidents and as an exile from her country. Written in America, Ireland, and England, her poems are about crossing countries and languages, recording loss and celebration, reconciling memories with dreams.
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Carcanet Press Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
64
Condition
New
Number of Pages
64
Place of Publication
Manchester, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781903039687
SKU
V9781903039687
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-33
About Carmen Bugan
Carmen Bugan was born in Romania and has lived in the US and Ireland, she now lives in Oxford. She won a Hopwood Award and a Cowden Memorial Fellowship at the University of Michigan for her poetry. Her poetry is included in Oxford Poets 2001 Anthology (Carcanet).
Reviews for Crossing the Carpathians
To say these poems are beautiful is to risk underselling them. It is the specific nature of their beauty that matters, compounded as it is of dark experience, hope, magic, delight, generosity and love of language. Bugan is such a natural poet that the most apparently straightforward account of life under Ceausescu transcends its grim subject. Her love poems and ... Read more