Poetry. Mirela Roznoveanu, a prolific Romanian writer, critic, and journalist, has come out with a new collection of poetry called ELEGIES FROM NEW YORK. "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" -Elizabeth Gamble Miller.

Author City: New York, NY USA

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.