Reviews

Alex Stefanescu - Romania's premier contemporary literary critic and historian: "This anthology displays a royal pageant of Romanian poetry. No important Romanian poet is missing... It will be difficult to ignore." ("Poetry presented as a gift" - Literary Romania / România Literară). "I am thinking how Daniel Ionita can write in one hundred manners... reconstituting the styles of poets from such different eras, while maintaining a ludic spirit. I keep his Anthology on my desk." (Branches/Ramuri literary magazine) Associate Professor Daniel Reynaud - Avondale College for Tertiary Studies, Australia: "This is, in my view, the importance of this volume: it brings that distinctive Romanian voice to the English language... It is a bridge, or a gate, giving English speakers access deep inside the Romanian soul... These poems bring to us, on the one hand, a world of experiences common to all humanity. And yet, this world is presented to us with a voice that can only arise from the sum total of the historical and cultural resonances that make Romania, Romania." ("Invading the Invaders" - The Morning Star / Luceafărul de Dimineață - October 2015) Radu Voinescu - literary critic, president of the Literary Criticism section of the Romanian Writers Union: "One of the major goals for Daniel Ionita when he engaged in this difficult project was to "offer the foreign reader a complete feel for the historical context of the Romanian poetry." I believe he achieved a lot more. His Anthology has a very good chance to represent Romanian culture at a level at which we all have, for a long time now, desired it should be." - ("The brilliant charm of anthologies" - The Morning Star / Luceafărul de Dimineață Carmen Firan - poet, novelist, playwright and translator - editorial board member at Lettre Internationale and Associate Editor at Interpoezia magazine in New York: "The translations have fluidity, and recreate the internal universe of the poem with inspired approaches. Daniel Ionita translates with his heart, as an authentic poet writes with his heart. Wherever you open this anthology, you stumble upon a particular poem which will touch you and you will feel like reading another one, and another..."