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A RIVETING INTRODUCTION TO CONTEMPORAY ROMANIAN POETRY FROM CALYPSO EDITIONS

SEATTLE—The finest voices in contemporary Romanian poetry are now available in an English translation from Calypso Editions. Of Gentle Wolves: An Anthology of Romanian Poetry brings together an eclectic collection of writers, from dynamic young poets such as Radu Vancu and Chris Tanasescu to venerable masters such as Ana Blandiana and Gellu Naum.  Calypso is thrilled to bring these fresh translations, featuring a number of authors appearing in English for the first time, to an American audience.

 Calypso Editions received worldwide media attention for its inaugural title, Leo Tolstoy’s classic story How Much Land Does a Man Need. Boris Dralyuk’s innovative translation received glowing praise from media outlets such as the New Yorker, the National Review, the Times Literary Supplement, and Three Percent.  Piotr Florczyk’s Building the Barricade and Other Poems followed in this tradition of excellence, garnering rave reviews from authors like Edward Hirsch, Katie Ford, and Sandra Alcosser and write-ups in Rain Taxi and World Literature Today.

 Of Gentle Wolves is poised to make a similar impact. David Baker claims that “Romania, and its poets are working at breakneck speed to make up for decades—for centuries—of damage, repression, and silence,” and that with this book, “Martin Woodside has given us an astute new glimpse into the place. Of Gentle Wolves is the best introduction to recent Romanian poetry I know.”  Ilya Kaminsky writes, “Woodside’s translations perform miracles. There is no other way to say this: the poems are alive, they breathe, they laugh and howl, they re-create our world again.”

 Martin Woodside was a Fulbright Fellow in Romania from 2009-10, studying Romanian poetry and translating many of the poems that appear in this anthology.  He’s the author of five books for children, a volume of poetry (Pudding House Press), and his translations and poems have appeared in publications including Guernica, The Cimarron Review, Poetry International, The Brooklyn Rail, and qarrtsinluni.  Currently he’s a Presidential Fellow in the Childhood Studies program at Rutgers-Camden.

 Calypso Editions is an artist-run, cooperative press dedicated to publishing quality literary books of poetry and fiction with a global perspective. Our only criterion is excellence. We believe that literature is essential to building an international community of readers and writers and that books can serve as physical  artifacts of beauty and wonder in a world of digital saturation.

 Our upcoming books include the vanishings & other poems by Elizabeth Myhr and Moonflower King by Tony Bonds. For more information, contact:

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 Founded in 2010 by writers based in various U.S. cities—from remote Alaska to New York City and several cities in between—Calypso Editions was created under the belief that a 21st-century press will best serve the literary community and reading public as a group of writer-publishers that celebrate literary excellence. As a decentralized, non-profit, shared-work literary press that provides an alternative for writers and readers of poetry and fiction, Calypso Editions publishes a minimum of four books annually.  For more information about us, our publishing plans, to purchase our books, or to make a donation, please visit www.calypsoeditons.org.

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