It includes poems by many leading writers, some first published in The Independent's series Bosnia Poems. The poems are baffled, helpless, heartfelt, heartbreaking, angry, tender, grieving. And the book is published to raise funds for Bosnian relief. See Kathleen Jamie. When she died in poverty at 31, Edith Sodergran had been dismissed as a mad, megalomanic aristocrat by most of her Finnish contemporaries.
Obliquity is the rule.
An old dog entertains metaphysical thoughts, and in its own way expresses an opinion. Or a knock on the door announces a milkwoman, not the secret police, but the one caller mirrors the other' - D.J. Enright. The Biggest Egg in the World Edited by Edna Longley Romania's comic genius in versions by Michael Hamburger and by Ioana Russell-Gebbett with Seamus Heaney, Ted Hughes, David Constantine, D.J. Enright, Paul Muldoon, William Scammell and Michael Longley. Censored Poems Translated by Ioana Russell-Gebbett and John Hartley Williams Romania's comic genius Marin Sorescu was so popular during the worst of the Ceausescu years that his readings had to be held in football stadiums, and his books sold hundreds of thousands of copies. While his witty, ironic parables were not directly critical of the r gime, Romanians used to a culture of double-speak could read other meanings in his playful mockery of the human condition.