Description: A Deafening Silence is the first UK publication by one of Romania's leading contemporary poets. Selecting from over twenty years' output, this bilingual volume offers an ideal introduction to her work.
Brief description: Adam J. Sorkin has published more than fifty books of Romanian translations and has won numerous awards, including the Poetry Society (U.K.)'s Popescu Translation Prize for Marin Sorescu's The Bridge, the Kenneth Rexroth Memorial Translation Prize, the Ioan Flora Translation Prize, and the Poesis Translation Prize, among others. His most recent books are The Hunchbacks' Bus by Nora Iuga, translated with Diana Manole (Bitter Oleander Press) and Syllables of Flesh by Floarea Tutuianu, translated with Irma Giannetti (Plamen Press).