Poezii alese

Product Description

Award-winning meter-and-rhyme renditions of 19-th century Romanian poet Mihai Eminescu. The book was awarded the Eminescu Gold Medal' in 2000, when Eminescu was declared 'UNESCO-Year-2000-Poet-Of-The-Year'. The volume includes some the 'national' poet's time-honored gems like Luceafarul/The Evening Star, Glossa, Scrisoarea I / First Epistle Satire, Stelele-n Cer/Stars in the Sky, La Steaua/Onto the Star, among others.

Review

(Romanian)... esantion a literaturii romane ... un manual de invatare a celui mai ales limbaj poetic romanesc pentru uzul anglofonilor... --

Romania Literara- nr.43, 29 oct- 4 nov 1977

... primacy of music... almost flawlessly rewriting Eminescu’s prosody... veils the challenges of translation under the effortlessness of smooth... --

Calin-Andrei Mihailescu, Haunting Hedonism of Sound, Literary Research/Recherche littéraire 17.34 (Fall - Winter 2000) 447-49

The classic dilemma of any translation, i.e. 'belles infidels' versus 'laides fideles' was solved here... as 'belles fideles'! --

Dumitru Radu Popa, UT MUSICA POESIS, Forward to 'Poezii Alese /Selected Poems’

About the Author

Born in Romania, Adrian George Sahlean holds a Master’s Degree in English and Spanish philology (Bucharest, 1975) and psychoanalysis (Boston, 1995). He completed his clinical training as certified psychoanalyst (2002) while working as a tennis coach of the US Professional Tennis Association (since 1986) and finishing a doctoral thesis on psychoanalytic interpretations of Romanian national ballad ‘Mioritza’. He is a published author of three volumes of poetry translations into English and of essays on literary translation. His meter-and-rhyme renditions of 19-th century Romanian ‘national’ poet Mihai Eminescu (UNESCO Year-2000-Poet-Of-The-Year) brought him the Eminescu Gold Medal and election into the prestigious Romanian Writer's Union.

Adrian George Sahlean is currently a faculty fellow at the Boston Graduate School of Psychoanalysis in Brookline, MA., a psychoanalyst in private practice, and a performance coach at the Longfellow Health Center in Wayland, MA.

Past activities include: professional children's choir; founder of a-cappella group ‘SONG" (2 records, national awards in Romania); part-time actor with ‘Bulandra’ repertory company; second prize at classical guitar festival (Sinaia, 1982); marathon runner (Boston, 1993). Serious hobby: bel-canto singing.