The Cities of Giorgio de Chirico

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The Cities of Giorgio de Chirico

Author: Constantin Severin
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9789390601745
Publisher: Cyberwit.net
Pub. Date: 2021
Price: $15

„Constantin Severin’s poems belonging to the poetry collection ’’The Cities of Giorgio de Chirico” are marvelous. I respond with my own blood and half-forgotten memories to his visceral accounts of a world undergoing dissolution, a change far beyond the ordinary and for which words cannot suffice and yet, miraculously, they do in his poems. I am taken most of all with the evocations of an older Romania, which existed in myths and in the mythic visitations of hummingbird, lilac, and butterflies and grandparents. There is about the suite a quality of legend, something ancient and I believe that Severin and the translator Slim FitzGerald have succeeded in capturing the ancient mind that lies beneath the body bags, the plague beneath the Corona virus.”

„ Poemele lui Constantin Severin apar?inând colec?iei „Ora?ele lui Giorgio de Chirico” sunt minunate. R?spund cu propriul meu sânge ?i cu amintiri pe jum?tate uitate la relat?rile sale viscerale despre o lume aflat? în disolu?ie, într-o schimbare mult dincolo de obi?nuit ?i pentru care cuvintele nu pot fi suficiente ?i totu?i, în mod miraculos, o fac în poeziile sale. Sunt impresionat mai ales de evoc?rile unei Românii mai vechi, care a existat în mituri ?i în apari?iile mitice ale p?s?rii colibri, liliacului, fluturilor ?i bunicilor. Exist? în aceast? serie o calitate a legendei, ceva antic ?i cred c? Severin ?i traduc?torul Slim FitzGerald au reu?it s? surprind? mintea str?veche care palpit? sub trupurile în pungi, sub ciuma virusului Corona.”

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Constantin Severin
	Constantin Severin is a Romanian writer and visual artist, founder and proponent of Archetypal Expressionism, a highly regarded global art movement, which he founded in Bukovina, in 2001. A graduate of the International Writing Program at the University of Iowa, he has published ten books of poetry, essays and fiction. One of his poems was included in the 2014 World Literature Today anthology, After the Wall Fell: Dispatches from Central Europe (1989–2014), aimed at popularizing post-Wende Central European literature on the twenty-fifth anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. Severin’s conceptual art and artworks have appeared in Artdaily, World Literature Today, Trafika Europe, It’s Liquid, Levure littéraire, Empireuma, Contemporanul, Vatra, Arkitera, Glare Magazine, Cuadernos del Ateneo, Dance, Media Japan, and other international art and literary magazines. Website: http://constantinseverin.ro/