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Cristina Cirstea

Contributor

Cristina Cirstea

Cristina C—rstea is a poet with work in Adam Sorkin's anthology City of Dreams and Whispers, in Filling Station, and in Absinthe, and collaborator and a co-editor with Adam Sorkin of the 2003 anthology of Moldovan poetry, Singular Destinies: Contemporary Poets of Bessarabia.

Articles by Cristina Cirstea

The Birch Grove

By Luminita Mihai Cioaba

Then, without ever knowing why, trees raise their naked arms to the King of the Sky.

Translated from Romany by Adam J. Sorkin & Cristina Cirstea

Queen of the Night and Stone Flower

By Luminita Mihai Cioaba

The eyes of the Roma know exactly when the earth's heart begins to stir deep down at spring's root, reviving the shoots of grass and the buds of trees until the green sap bursts with love before the Sun's eyes.

Translated from Romany by Adam J. Sorkin & Cristina Cirstea

Meralda

By Luminita Mihai Cioaba

Just as the sun rises every day, giving its light to the earth, so day after day, year in, year out, we Roma travel on, without knowing where we are headed but following the road that lies before us.…

Translated from Romanian by Adam J. Sorkin & Cristina Cirstea

From “The Lost Country”

By Luminita Mihai Cioaba

Don't be afraid. I'll be here by your side, and I'll give you the gift I promised.

Translated from Romanian by Adam J. Sorkin & Cristina Cirstea