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Adam J. Sorkin is a Professor of English at Penn State Delaware County. He has published eight previous translations of Romanian poetry including An Anthology of Romanian Women Poets, Transylvanian Voices: An Anthology of Contemporary Poets from Cluj-Napoca, and the prize-winning City of Dreams and Whispers: An Anthology of Contemporary Poets of Iaşi. A former Fulbright Scholar and recipient of the Rockefeller Foundation and IREX grants, Sorkin is a member of the American Literary Translators Association. With the poet Daniela Crăsnaru, he translated Sea-Level Zero which was published by BOA Editions in 1999.

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I Am Trying to Love the Whole World

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The Complete Writings of Art Smith, the Bird Boy of Fort Wayne, Edited by Michael Martone

The Complete Writings of Art Smith, the Bird Boy of Fort Wayne, Edited by Michael Martone is a Midwestern mythology that celebrates facts, fiction,…

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Against Distance

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Sleeping with Houdini

Signed copies available in limited supply Nin Andrews starts from the premise that life on Earth is suffering, and that a large part of…

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Sea-Level Zero

In this ambitious collection, the first North American translation by one of Romania's most important writers, Daniela Crasnaru tackles such diverse subjects as the…

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