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Stella Vinitchi Radulescu's poetry dwells in spaces of paradox,
seeking out the words, metaphors, and images that capture both the
peaceful stillness of snow and the desperate cry of human
experience. A Cry in the Snow often draws on these two fertile
tropes: the beauty of nature and the power and limitations of
language. A trilingual poet who has published in French, English,
and her native Romanian, Radulescu seeks to harness the elemental
aspects of human experience, working between language and the
mysterious power of silence. Combining poems from two
French-language collections, Un Cri dans la neige (A Cry in the
Snow) and a poetic prose sequence, Journal aux yeux fermes (Journal
with Closed Eyes), this collection presents the distinctive and
powerful French poems of Stella Vinitchi Radulescu to an
English-language readership for the first time.
Description: Poems of Devotion is a collection of the finest recent
poems in the devotional mode, which the editor examines in detail
in the introductory essay. The seventy-seven poets collected here
demonstrate the ongoing vitality of poetry as a spiritual practice,
in the long tradition of poets, psalmists, and mystics from the
East and West. This is an anthology that will prove deeply
rewarding in the classroom, at home, or in the library of your
religious institution. Endorsements: ""The phrase 'contemporary
devotional poetry' is more likely to conjure images of treacly
holiday greeting cards than literature of the highest order. But
this anthology, on the contrary, bears witness to the perennial
human desire to adore--and to question, Job-like--the Almighty.
This is a generous and inclusive selection, containing not only
modern masters but also emerging voices. Above all, it is a
reminder that the best writing is, in the end, an offering to the
Mystery."" --Gregory Wolfe, editor of Image About the
Contributor(s): Luke Hankins is the author of a book of poems, Weak
Devotions (Wipf & Stock, 2011). His chapbook of translations of
French poems by Stella Vinitchi Radulescu, I Was Afraid of Vowels .
. . Their Paleness, was published in 2011 by Q Avenue Press. He is
Senior Editor at Asheville Poetry Review, where he has served on
staff since 2006.
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