Clay and Star: Selected Poems of Liliana Ursu: Selected Poems of Liliana Ursu Translated by Mihaela Moscaliuc

¿ Translator: Mihaela Moscaliuc is the author of Immigrant Model (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2015) and Father Dirt (Alice James Books, 2010), translator of Carmelia Leonte's The Hiss of the Viper (Carnegie Mellon University Press, 2015), and editor of Insane Devotion: On the Writing of Gerald Stern (Trinity University Press 2016). A former Fulbright Scholar, Moscaliuc is associate professor of English at Monmouth University and visiting faculty in the Drew University MFA Program in Poetry and Poetry in Translation.¿ Poet: Born in Sibiu, Romania, Liliana Ursu has published thirteen books of poetry in Romanian, most recently the selected Loc Ferit/ Haven. Her first book in English, The Sky Behind the Forest (Bloodaxe Books, 1997), translated by Adam J. Sorkin and Tess Gallagher with the poet, was shortlisted for Oxford's Weidenfeld Prize, and Lightwall (Zephyr, 2009), translated by Sean Cotter, was a finalist for the PEN USA 2010 Literary Award in Translation. Ursu, who has been awarded Romania's rank of Knight of Arts and Literature, is also the recipient of two Fulbright grants and taught creative writing at the University of Louisville and at Bucknell University.

Clay and Star transcends place and time as it searches obsessively for essence, truths, self-knowledge, and the divine within.

The Pine in the Bay 5Poem Written on a Rainy Day about Garden Shears 6Poem with Wax Wicket 7Chimney Sweepers between Millenia 8Poem in January 9Luggage 10Spring Fire 11The Barn 12Prayer 14Dusk with Poet 15The One Who Leaves Few Footprints in the Snow 16Poem with Wicket in Stephen the Great's Bell Tower 17The Light of the Psalms 18Poem with Stairway to the Hermit's Hut 19Father Cleopa 20Stigmata 21First Day at Varatec Monastery 22If I Lift My Eyes 23Messenger 24Poem Composed while Being Watched by a Bird 25In the Heart of the Forest 26Poem with Blueberries, Fog, and Sibiu 27History of a Couple 29The Tower of Steps 30Landscape with Poet 31Painting with Late Night in Paltinis 32Harmonia Mundi 33The Main Square 35The Little Square 36Between the Wheat Wells and the Bridal Mirrors 37The Tower of Welders 38The Street of Measuring Scales 40The Bridge over the Train Station 42In the Burgh of Yesteryear 44Healings 45Shards of Happiness 46Mother's Birth Year 47Sitting at the Table with My Angel in Patmos 49Sibiu Rain 51The Windows of Visby 52The Room on the Island 53For Jean Weigl 54And Here Goes Tess, on Nygatan Street 56Matache Market Seen from Boston 57Saturday with Blizzard and the Council Tower 58Silent Tongue 60The Biblical Garden of San Francisco 61The Child Speaks 63Flight Lesson at the Baltic Sea 64Words as Gladiolas 65Andantino 66