Libraria Carturesti (MTR) - Lansare 'Omul alchimic', de David Baker - traducere de Chris Tanasescu

BUCURESTI - 30 noiembrie 2009

Comunicat tip General in Educatie / Cultura

Miercuri, 2 decembrie, ora 19 - Libraria Carturesti (Muzeul Taranului Roman, Blvd. Kiseleff nr. 3) - Va avea loc lansarea volumului de versuri Omul alchimic, de David Baker, in traducerea poetului Chris Tanasescu, aparut la Editura Vinea.

Prezinta criticul Ion Bogdan Lefter (director publicatia ALtitudini, prof. dr. la Facultatea de Litere Univ. Bucuresti) si Nicolae Tzone, director al editurii Vinea. Lansarea se va incheia cu o lectura in paralel, autorul si traducatorul, in engleza si romana.

David Baker este unul dintre cei mai importanti poeti ai Americii. Autor a noua carti de poezie si trei de critica si eseistica, detinator al unui impresionant numar de distinctii literare de prim rang, printre care premii si burse obtinute de la John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, National Endowment for the Arts, Ohio Arts Council, Poetry Society of America, Society of Midland Authors, Pushcart Foundation, etc. Este profesor de literatura si director al programului de creative writing de la Denison University, Ohio, si profesor in programul de masterat pentru scriitori de la Warren Wilson College. Baker este redactorul de poezie al prestigioasei reviste The Kenyon Review.

Chris Tanasescu pregateste al patrulea sau volum de versuri la Editura Vinea; preda cursuri de poezie americana si creative writing şi de prozodie romanească si compozitie poetica la Universitatea Bucuresti; Tanasescu este poetul grupului Margento.

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December 2nd (Wednesday), 7 p.m.

19:00 - Book launch: Omul alchimic (Alchemical Man) by David Baker, poems selected
and translated by Chris Tanasescu, Vinea Press (address: Carturesti Bookshop,
Romanian Peasant Museum, 3 Kiseleff Bv.)

Speakers:
Ion Bogdan Lefter, literary critic, Editor of the Altitudini review, professor in the
Faculty of Letters, University of Bucharest, and Nicolae Tzone, poet, Director of
Vinea Press.
Poetry reading: Poems by David Baker read by the author in English and by
translator Chris Tanasescu in Romanian

David Baker: About Baker, the poet Linda Gregerson said: '[He] writes with the distilled, distinguished attentiveness only the finest poets can reliably command,' and Marilyn Hacker called him 'the most expansive and moving poet to come out of the American Midwest since James Wright.'
Among Baker's awards are fellowships and prizes from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, National Endowment for the Arts, Ohio Arts Council, Poetry Society of America, Society of Midland Authors, and the Pushcart Foundation.
He is currently a Professor of English and the Thomas B. Fordham Chair of Creative Writing at Denison University and is a faculty member in the M.F.A. program for writers at Warren Wilson College.
Baker currently resides in Granville, Ohio, where he serves as Poetry Editor of The Kenyon Review.

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