Leonard Schwartz

No Man's Land. An excellent anthology of American poetry translated in Romanian. Excellent that is if you enjoy, like me, something unpredictable and rather courageous. As a warning, you should bear in mind that there is a lot of language/gnostic/neomodernism and all sorts of post-surrealist experimentalism in here and less neo-beat or prosaic kind of minimalism - which is why some Romanian readers (poets themselves, of course), who were used to the image of American poetry they got from Mircea Ivănescu's old anthology of translated American poetry, image centered on, of course, the likes of Ginsberg... I, on the other hand, find these intricate and refined poets a lot more interesting to explore. A bit of a puzzle craze too, since it took me a lot to sink my teeth into this book (a bit thick, but even more dense). But I won't get bored too soon.… (meer)