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    A Path to the Sea
    A Path to the Sea
    A Path to the Sea
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    A Path to the Sea

    By Liliana Ursu

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    From poet Tess Gallagher, one of the translators of this new book by Liliana Ursu: 'Like a ring of fire around fire,' Liliana Ursu ends her poem, an image that also conveys the intensity of this book. Translating these amazing poems was like translating lightning. They left me singed and stricken but lifted by their illuminations, their sudden, piercing power. Co-existing with Ursu s magical binding of the broken world with 'word-shadow' is her close, wide, child s eye fixed tenderly on wild strawberries, on the bird's egg fallen from its forest nest. She knows to leave the wasp s sting in us, allowing us 'great pain after great love.'
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPBS Publications
    Release dateMar 4, 2020
    ISBN9781545722220
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      A Path to the Sea - Liliana Ursu

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      1.

      Celebration in the Season of Nettles

      It’s Not a Good Time for Poets

      The despair of my open hand

      at the corner of my lips—

      the tremor of my voice when I ask

      in the Cibin market in Sibiu

      for a kilo of cherries—these

      are the fierce masks behind which I preserve myself

      during days when another poet advises:

      "Transform yourself into

      something else, even a dragon. Forget

      for a while you’re a poet. It won’t do

      you any good. Can even

      destroy you."

      And I—who stubbornly continue to write poems,

      to cull, to retrieve my youth

      from photographs—gather lavender, stalk

      by stalk, and spread it on my dead father’s desk.

      As if life were just going on,

      comforting and gentle, imaginable.

      As if my flesh were, yes,

      what it is: a fountain of stars.

      Celebration in the Season of Nettles

      I haven’t written any poems.

      Not about the tribe of nettles and their uses,

      nor about the cherry blossoms.

      Winter felt endless

      and my skittery sleep, like a startled rabbit

      pursued by too many hunters, shook the dark.

      There’s little news:

      the daffodils herald a fanfare of gold

      in the monastery garden, and

      Cati’s old aunt was picked up by the wind

      while hanging her patched blouses in the yard.

      She’s all right now.

      She reads her favorite psalms in the glow

      of her small table lamp, its backlit shade

      a collage of half-century-old news clippings,

      her photograph at twenty

      when she was crowned Miss Romania.

      Another Saturday night and fireworks sparkle like a tiara

      in the quiet March sky. Who knows

      what the guests at the Marriott might be

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