Poetry. Carmen Firan's subtle yet vividly intense poems of the artist's inner life range from Bucharest and New York to the invented submarine and subterranean landscapes of the mind. Mixed in with her bitter memory of an oppressive totalitarian society is her sparkling ironic wit -- Isaiah Sheffer.
Author City: New York, NY USA
Carmen Firan, Romanian born, is a poet, a fiction and a play writer. She has published in her native country twenty books of poetry, novels, essays, and short stories. She is also the author of several plays and film scripts. Since 2000 she has been living in New York. Her writings appear in translation in many literary magazines and in various anthologies in France, Israel, Sweden, Germany, Ireland, Poland, Canada, U K, and the USA.