Rhapsodies by Petrus Borel, trans. by John Gallas and Kurt Ganz Geraldine Clarkson In Gate of Lilacs

In Gate of Lilacs

Gizzi enlists the American vernacular in a magical and complex music

These two books mark a turning point in Blandiana’s poetic evolution: they lead towards a new conception of poetry as a reflection on being that culminates in My Native Land A4 (first published in Romania in 2010 and published in English by Bloodaxe in 2014)

tenderness and rage

Although he often railed against the defenders of Slovene [traditional poetic] beauty and the tyranny of metaphor

Rhapsodies by Petrus Borel, trans. by John Gallas and Kurt Ganz Geraldine Clarkson In Gate of LilacsBorel was the sun,' said Theophile Gautier, 'who could resist him?' Indeed, who? A lycanthrope, necrophile, absurd revolutionary, Paris dandy with a scented beard, flamboyant sufferer: a man with no grave and no memorial. His once celebrated red mouth opened briefly 'like an exotic flower' to complain of injustice and bourgeois vulgarity; of his frustration in love and reputation; of poverty and blighted fate. Then he withered in the minor officialdom