Elegies from New York City
Mirela RoznoveanuKoja Press, January 2008
SBN 13: 978-0-9773698-4-3
ISBN 10: 0-9773698-4-6
6"x 9," 106 pages, full-color cover,
perfect binding$15
About This Book:
William James Austin: “Mirela Roznoveanu’s poetry is "innovative" where it counts, I think — the imagery is really stunning. I can't imagine anyone with any sensitivity reading her work, and not experiencing a strong emotional response.”
Elizabeth Gamble Miller: “What I find fascinating are the startling images gleaned from such a breadth of human experience. The poetry is of such depth and complexity while not in the least hermetic. It is as if the image is the precise one to stir the conflicting emotions that permeate the poems. Mirela Roznoveanu’s world travels and breadth of literary experience carry a resonance that inspires further exploration into the poetic line. Without actually reading the Romanian I find the reading of her poetry and of Heathrow O’Hare's translations as seamless. This is quite a remarkable accomplishment.”
About The Author:
Mirela Roznoveanu is a native of Romania who immigrated to the United States in 1991. She was a noted dissident journalist during the turbulent period of the late eighties. Her literary works in Romanian include four novels, six volumes of critical essays, and a poetry book. She has published in English a book of poems, Born Again – in Exile, a collection of novellas, The Life Manager and Other Stories, and literary criticism. Mirela Roznoveanu is a member of the faculty of New York University’s School of Law.
It has been said that Mirela Roznoveanu’s writing changed greatly after her leaving Romania. Today, one would not agree with this statement any more. Mirela was always a writer pursuing her way to perfection and artistic development. These trends could be seen from her earlier works, such as her manifesto of her Romanian debut volume in Romania, “Lecturi Moderne” (Modern Readings, 1978). Mirela is among those writers and critics who have sought over recent years to turn the energy of their native cultures into a complex aesthetic with significant moral and political connotations.
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