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Cristina Cirstea

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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

When the winds sweep away winter’s dreaming, March dresses up in flowers and grass and, on long wings, ushers in the spring. Then, without ever knowing why, trees raise their naked arms to the King…

Translated from Romany by Adam J. Sorkin & Cristina Cirstea

Queen of the Night and Stone Flower

By Luminita Mihai Cioaba

On the souls of those who live life free under the skies—with the blades of grass, at the edge of the forest, on hills bedizened with bright flowers of the field—it is written that they must…

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

The Gypsy Princess and the NightingaleThe truth is that, in the days of yore, the Gypsies had a country. Now they keep searching for it in vain, the wheels of their wagons wearing ruts in the roads as…

Translated from Romanian by Adam J. Sorkin & Cristina Cirstea