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Ştefan Manasia's poems, in Clara Burghelea's nimble and muscular translations, take the reader to a place of sharp surprises, fragments of narrative lost in a funhouse of twisting pictures. From local love to global uncertainty, Manasia imbues pop-culture, post-postmodern references with all the emotion of strangeness and lovelorn despair. Manasia's poems descend from Romanian greats, calling out to Ion Mureşan and Ion Stratan, while they rhyme with Tomaz Salamun and invoke Roberto Bolaño. In Burghelea's hands, the book obtains a cat-eyed, narrow intensity, a playful taunting, and piercing rhythm. An exceptional work. - Sean Cotter, translator of Solenoid Ștefan Manasia is one of the leading Romanian poets of our time. The title of his new book, A Clear Sky, is both accurate and deceptive. His own clarity of vision is palpable in every poem, but that clarity is often achieved through indirection and irony, and that clear sky is often filled with threatening clouds. ""God,"" he writes, explaining why he writes, ""shows, as expected, /limited imagination./Nature unveils/only its winding paths."" I'm thrilled there is an English translation that captures both the beauty and the complexity of Manasia's work. -Lloyd Schwartz, poet and Pulitzer Prize-winning critic

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Stefan Manasia is a Romanian poet, journalist and editor. He published seven volumes of poetry and had his poems translated in Hungarian, French, German, Polish and Modern Hebrew. He is the author of a collection of essays and literary chronicles called The Aroma Stabilizer and a short story collection, The Chronovisor. His most recent poetry collection is The Obscure Sources (2024). Clara Burghelea published two poetry collections: The Flavor of the Other (Dos Madres Press 2020) and Praise the Unburied (Chaffinch Press 2021). Her poems and translations appeared in Gulf Coast, Delos, The Los Angeles Review and elsewhere. She is the Review Editor of Ezra, An Online Journal of Translation and the Translation Editor of Reunion: The Dallas Review.

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