Angel Riding a Beast

About the author

LILIANA URSU was born in 1949 in Bucharest, Romania, and was educated in French and English at Bucharest University. She has published seven books of poetry and two books of short stories. In 1997, her book of poetry The Sky behind the Forest was published in an English translation by Bloodaxe Press. In 1992 and 1997, she was a Fulbright Fellow at Pennsylvania State University. She currently produces a weekly literary program for the Cultural Department of Romanian National Radio.

BRUCE WEIGL teaches in the writing program at Pennsylvania State University and is the author of eight books of poetry, most recently What Saves Us (1992) and Sweet Lorain (1996), both published by TriQuarterly Books / Northwestern University Press.

Summary

The poems in Angel Riding a Beast are the stunning expression of the Romanian poet Liliana Ursu's years in America. The sadness and paradoxes of exile and the clarity of a cross-cultural awareness become for Ursu the psychological and descriptive framework for poems infused with the emotion and images of erotic longing and spiritual loneliness.

Product details

• Authors: Liliana Ursu
• Assisted by: Liliana Ursu (Translation), Bruce Weigl (Translation)
• Publisher: Northwestern University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 11.11.1998
• EAN: 9780810116597
• ISBN: 978-0-8101-1659-7
• No. of pages: 75
• Dimensions: 118 mm x 201 mm x 8 mm
• Weight: 109 g
• Series: Writings from an Unbound Europ; Writings from an Unbound Europe S.; Writings from an Unbound Europe; Writings from an Unbound Europ; Writings from an Unbound Europe
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies