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poems by Michael Heller

presented by Raluca Tanasescu click aici pentru versiunea română   MICHAEL HELLER (b. 1937) is an American objectivist poet, of Jewish and Romanian origins, who has published over twenty volumes of poetry, essays and memoirs. His newest book is This Constellation Is A Name: Collected Poems 1965-2010. Other recent works include: Eschaton (2009), a book […]

poems by Felino A. Soriano

[from Of these spiraled identities]   XXXVIII   of this stone in-hand or hand-on stone’s relevant belly                                    the soldered speckles of bluegreen asterisks                                    walking from cold onto the warming U-turns

American SF literature in Romania: Ray Bradbury – „Fahrenheit 451”

[translation: Petre Solomon, Paladin Publishing, 2013] (a reader’s guide to fantasy) by Oliviu Crâznic translation from Romanian by Alina-Olimpia Miron   click aici pentru versiunea română     Ray Bradbury (1920-2012… another recent, immense loss for culture) is considered one of the greatest American writers of the 20th century. He wrote SF literature, „fantasy” literature, […]

Ana Antonescu and the new series of the Anticipaţia (issue 1-6) Collection of SF Short-Stories

(a reader’s guide to fantasy) by Oliviu Crâznic translation from Romanian by Alina-Olimpia Miron   click aici pentru versiunea română   An exceptional phenomenon for the lovers of fantasy literature occurred in the fall of 2012 thanks to Nemira Publishing: the revival of the Anticipaţia Almanac and the magazine Collection of SF Short-Stories (book form, […]

The God of Oblivion

by Patrick Călinescu   Many years ago I decided to stop being a theist. I simply can’t believe in the existence of god. Yesterday I also decided to stop being an atheist. I simply can’t believe in the non-existence of god either.   I know that many think that god is either existence that has […]

The Three Brides Of The Portrait Painter

by Oliviu Crâznic Her eyes of starlight honey, her hair the golden wine, I was to paint her portrait, and then we were to dine; Her body dressed in lilies, all blossomed on her bloom, I said the words, I touched her – the White Bride left the room.   I tried to cope with passion, […]

The Philosophical Porn of Pharcicall P. Doe

by Patrick Călinescu   Would you like to lick the behindness of my ear?   You want me to lick you behind your ear?   Yes, I have a spot in the thereness of the behindness of my ear.   And you want me to make you very horny by licking it till the front […]

An outburst of sincerity

by Patrick Călinescu   How can I become a great stylist in English (for I have long been wanting to be become one), when I’m in the middle of bloody nowhere, and nowhere to be seen anywhere in the four corners of the English-speaking world? How can I become my finest, yet dream-y, accomplishment with […]

Romanian fantasy  literature: Michael Haulică – “Transfer”

[Millennium Books Publishing House, 2012] (a reader’s guide to fantasy [3]) by Oliviu Crâznic translation from Romanian by Cristina Baciu [MTTLC student]   click aici pentru versiunea română   Fiction writer (Madia Mangalena, Despre singurătate şi îngeri, Aşteptând-o pe Sara, Povestiri fantastice, Povestea lui Calistrat Hadâmbu), critic (Nu sunt guru, …nici Torquemada), editor, collections coordinator […]

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