THE MOMENTS THE POETRY READER LOOKS FOR ...

...my bones hurt

because they want to fly

Well, that's a moment. I just read SECRET WEAPON: SELECTED LATE POEMS by the Romanian poet Eugen Jebeleanu, Trans. by Matthew Zapruder and Radu Ioanid with a very useful Introduction by Andrei Codrescu (Coffee House Press, 2008).  I had to let it go to a reviewer in Bucharest!  But I wanted to keep it after reading the poems so, I bought my own!  Not many poetry collections inspire the purse-opening...so kudos to Coffee House Press and the editors for this project!






Here's a sample poem: