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	The Bridge By Marin Sorescu
translated by Adam J Sorkin & Lidia Vianu The Bridge is Sorescu's farewell to life, a book of wryly quizzical poems composed from his sickbed over five weeks as he waited for death to take him, his testament not just to human mortality and pain but also to resistance and creative transformation. The Bridge is unlike any other book of poetry: like a medieval dance of death but sombre in movement, a procession of breathlessly spoken, painfully comic poems. Shortlisted for the Corneliu M Popescu Prize for European Poetry in Translation 2005 £7.95 Paperback 1 85224 577 8. 96pp. 2004.
Buy this book now from Other books by Marin Sorescu: BPI2 : Bloodaxe Poetry Introductions 2 Censored Poems Selected Poems The Biggest Egg in the World