Crossing the Carpathians

by Bugan, Carmen

• ISBN13: 9781903039687
• ISBN10: 1903039681
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2005-04-01
• Publisher: Carcanet Press Ltd.

Summary

Exile, family, and the survival of love are all topics explored in this collection of poetry. Born in Romania, Carmen Bugan's verse is rooted in her experience of Eastern Europe in the mid-1980s as a child of political dissidents and an exile from her native country. Her pieces skillfully interweave the emotions of crossing countries and languages with loss, celebration, and the reconciliation of memory with dreams.

Author Biography

Carmen Bugan won a Hopwood Award and a Cowden Memorial Fellowship at the University of Michigan for her poetry.

Table of Contents

On the side of forgetting	9	(2)
In the silent country	11	(2)
Portrait of a family	13	(1)
The demonstration	14	(1)
Fertile ground	15	(1)
The first visit	16	(1)
The divorce	17	(1)
Exorcism	18	(1)
Stories for the night	19	(1)
Confession to my son	20	(1)
Taking leave	21	(1)
The train station at the border	22	(1)
Grand Rapids, Michigan	23	(1)
In exile	24	(1)
Home	25	(1)
For Sorin	26	(1)
Ann Arbor	27	(1)
For you	28	(1)
Return to sound	29	(1)
Sitting with a hurricane lamp in America	30	(1)
At her funeral	31	(1)
Doorways	32	(1)
Leac na cumhaidg	33	(1)
I drink with you	34	(1)
Emilia	35	(1)
Walking by the Atlantic at low tide	36	(1)
Crossing the Carpathians with you	37	(1)
Sleeping apple	38	(1)
The day we decided we would lie	39	(1)
By the lamp, burning	40	(1)
Cursing the tongue	41	(1)
Lullaby	42	(1)
Memories	43	(1)
In the middle of eternity	44	(1)
This spring	45	(1)
For my father	46	(2)
Flight dream	48	(1)
Handfast Point	49	(1)
Black Head Ledges	50	(1)
The second spring	51	(1)
Windspit	52	(1)
Moorings	53	(1)
Poem without a name	54	(1)
At the window	55	(1)
Past solitude	56	(1)
Lyme Regis	57	(1)
Abbotsbury	58	(1)
A house of stone	59	(1)
Blindness, beside another war	60	(1)
Under Magdalen Tower, with you	61	(1)
The space into	62	(1)
After seven years, for the unearthing of your body	63	(2)
Evening	65	(1)
January, Holywell Cemetery	66	(1)
Oh, yes	67	(1)
For my mother and sister	68