Train Ride to Bucharest: Poems

Lucia Cherciu

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If you want to know what it is like to live in Romania under a communist dictatorship and to somehow fight your way into teaching English at an American university, read this book.

Book Details

Publisher: Sheep Meadow Press
Publish Date: Jun 6th, 2017
Pages: 224
Language: English
Edition: undefined - undefined
Dimensions: 8.90in - 6.40in - 0.60in - 0.62lb
EAN: 9781937679699
Categories: • American - General

About the Author

Lucia Cherciu was born in Romania, has Romanian passions for the poor, the exiled, the murdered. Anti-communist, she came to America and miraculously manages to teach English at SUNY Dutchess in Poughkeepsie, New York.

Praise for this book

Lucia Cherciu's poetry takes place on the memory train stopping at multiple stations, some of them real like Bucharest and the places of her childhood, others drawn from the milky sea of boundless myth that has a station in every Romanian-born poet. The train also stops in the 'Where of Now, ' announcing Lucia's arrival with a blast of snow or a rain of sour cherries. Unscheduled and announced, it's a train to watch for.--Andrei Codrescu