{"product_id":"canting-arms-poems-9781646052745","title":"Canting Arms: Poems","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eOne of Moldova's most awarded poets, Emilian Galaicu-Păun's style is rich with references at once playful and thematically serious, at times even comic.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eCanting Arms\u003c\/i\u003e, the first collection to bring Emilian Galaicu-Păun's work to Anglophone readers, is comprised of a career-spanning selection of his work produced from 1989-2019. These poems--sardonic and visionary as well as surprising--unsettle the normative poetic form, a reflection of Moldova's unorthodox national history as a product of the clash of many historical narratives of empire, a crossroad between East and West. This collection, the work of Adam J. Sorkin with six co-translators, shows everything from his earlier poems, full of scriptural and erotic references, to later work full of complex political, historical, and psychological considerations.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eEmilian Galaicu-Păun\u003c\/b\u003e was born in 1964 in Unchitești, Republic of Moldova. His books of poetry include \u003ci\u003eLumina proprie\u003c\/i\u003e (1986), \u003ci\u003eAbece-Dor\u003c\/i\u003e (1989), \u003ci\u003eLevitații deasupra hăului\u003c\/i\u003e (1991), \u003ci\u003eCel bătut îl duce pe cel nebătut\u003c\/i\u003e (1994), \u003ci\u003eYin Time\u003c\/i\u003e (1999), \u003ci\u003eGestuar\u003c\/i\u003e (2002), \u003ci\u003eArme grăitoare\u003c\/i\u003e (2009), and a career retrospective, \u003ci\u003eA-Z.best\u003c\/i\u003e (2012). His prose volumes are \u003ci\u003eGesturi. Trilogia nimicului\u003c\/i\u003e (1996), \u003ci\u003ePoezia de după poezie. Ultimul deceniu\u003c\/i\u003e (1999), and \u003ci\u003eȚesut viu: 10 x 10\u003c\/i\u003e (2011). His poetry, in Adam J. Sorkin's collaborative translations, appears in the anthologies \u003ci\u003eSingular Destinies: Contemporary Poets of Bessarabia\u003c\/i\u003e (2003), \u003ci\u003eA Fine Line: New Poetry from Eastern and Central Europe\u003c\/i\u003e (2004), \u003ci\u003eNew European Poets\u003c\/i\u003e (2008), and \u003ci\u003eBorn in Utopia: An Anthology of Modern and Contemporary Romanian Poetry\u003c\/i\u003e (2006); and in the literary journals \u003ci\u003e3: am\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eAbsinthe: New European Writing\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eConnotation Press\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eOrient Express\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003ePoezia\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eTurbulence\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003ePoem\u003c\/i\u003e (forthcoming). Galaicu-Păun is editor-in-chief at Cartier Publishing House, Chișinău, and has won numerous awards in Romania and Moldova. In 2014, the president of Moldova awarded him the Order of Cultural Merit in the Grade of Office. In 2015, he was one of the National Prize laureates of Moldova.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAdam J. Sorkin\u003c\/b\u003e has published more than fifty books of translation. His work has won the 2005 Poetry Society Prize for European Poetry Translation as well as the International Quarterly Crossing Boundaries Award, the Kenneth Rexroth Memorial Translation Prize, the Ioan Flora Prize for Poetry Translation, and the Poesis Translation Prize, among others. His most recent publications include \u003ci\u003eA Sharp Double-Edged Luxury Object\u003c\/i\u003e by Rodica Draghincescu (Červená Barva, 2014), translated with Antuza Genescu; \u003ci\u003eGold and Ivy\/Aur și iederă\u003c\/i\u003e by George Vulturescu (Eikon, 2014), translated with Olimpia Iacob; \u003ci\u003eThe Starry Womb\u003c\/i\u003e by Mihail Gălățanu (Diálogos, 2014), translated with Petru Iamandi and the author; and \u003ci\u003eThe Book of Anger\u003c\/i\u003e by Marta Petreu (Diálogos, 2014), translated with Christina Zarifopol-Illias and Liviu Bleoca. His translation of Floarea Țuțuianu's \u003ci\u003eSyllables of Flesh\u003c\/i\u003e is forthcoming from Plamen Press.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Phoneme Media","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50389851472146,"sku":"9781646052745","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_c6332e21-4cdf-406a-9021-c954c29df952.jpg?v=1728931370","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/canting-arms-poems-9781646052745","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}