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By\u00a0Marta Petreu<\/strong>
\n Translated by\u00a0Adam J. Sorkin, Christina Zarifopol-Illias and Liviu Bleoca<\/strong><\/h3>\n

ISBN 978-1-935084-74-7
\n 120 pages: $16.00 — October, 2014<\/p>\n

\n

Marta Petreu\u2019s white-hot, incantatory poetry in\u00a0The Book of Anger<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0is the intense dramatic expression of alienation and defiance, of spiritual rebellion as much as anger. The anguished voice of the solitary poet, \u201ca woman thin as a sword\u201d and arrogantly armed with \u201cthe verb\u2026the word,\u201d is that of an Eve reaching out in a cosmos of silence, blackness, absence: \u201cOn the branch no apple.\u201d Petreu has been betrayed\u2014by God, \u201cDomine<\/em><\/strong>,\u201d whom she maligns as \u201cour father the mumbler the muncher,\u201d \u201cthe Butcher the Flayer\u201d; by the \u201cmagnificent phalanx of my men\u201d whom she taunts, \u201cI\u2019ll transform them\u2026to ink\u2026The ink I write my shameless poems with\u201d; by her own immersion in common human frailty and disease, \u201cour\u00a0lifedeath<\/em><\/strong>\u201d; and by her womanly need to love, pity, forgive and understand, even the masculine creator, \u201cboth of us prisoners, O Almighty,\u201d \u201ca couple\u2026like twins in a uterus too narrow.\u201d This is searing poetry written with \u201csacred carnivorous words\u201d that offer a terrible radiance.<\/p>\n

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Marta\u2019s psalms are not someone\u2019s dialogue with the Divine, with God, from here on earth, but that of someone in Hell! And someone who reproaches the Creator not for the fact that he, she, the poet, is here in Hell, but for the fact, the mistake, the meanness, the impotence of the Creator who created this world, life, existence\u2026 out of mud, infested with worms, hideous, of carbon. The poet Marta is ensnared in an error, fertile, expressionistic in form, nihilistic in content, a revolt against self and the Divine which conceals, of course, a terrible narcissism. A vehemence of the self, a blood relative of the dark apprehension of the greatest lyrical psalmist of the past century, Rainer Maria Rilke.\u00a0
\nMarta Petreu\u2019s poetry triumphs in one of the most radical expressions of lyricism in postwar art.
\n\u2014 Nicolae Breban<\/p>\n

Marta Petreu addresses the Supreme Authority directly without intermediaries, in the manner of the Old Testament, not as a submissive soul but as a rebellious, renegade, rejected one. She is sometimes an Eve expelled but still a princess, whereas the jungle granted her for her earthly realm is all that she claims as hers, a country full of the privileged dangers of knowledge.
\n Kafka called such awareness\u2026 birth. The truth of the birth of the self transcends suffering. The mark of true poetry, of true poets.
\n \u2014 Norman Manea<\/p>\n

Marta Petreu is an egocentric by nature, with an arrogance that must be understood as a refusal to spare herself. Her pride consists of making herself a negative example,\u2026dissecting herself with a sharp bistoury so as to reveal her pain, her frustration, her lack of hope, her failure. Hers is a lyricism of disappointment, which does not hide behind a mask but declares itself: the poet sticks her finger into the wound, probing the most painful places, with an unbearable cruelty.
\n \u2014 Nicolae Manolescu<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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