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Mariana Marin

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Mariana Marin

Mariana Marin (1956-2003) was born in Bucharest and graduated from The Faculty of Letters, University of Bucharest. She published the following collections of poems: Un razboi de o suta de ani (A Hundred Year War), 1981; Cinci (Five), a collective volume, 1982; Aripa secreta (The Secret Wing), 1986; Atelierele (The Workshops), 1991; Mutilarea artistului la tinerete (A Portrait of the Artist as a Mutilated Man), 1999; and Zestrea de aur (The Golden Heritage), 2002. Her works were translated into French, and she published poems in magazines and anthologies in Britain, Germany, the U.S., Sweden, Hungary, Russia, and Poland. She received the Romanian Writers Union Prize (1981 and 1999) and the ASPRO Prize (1999).

Articles by Mariana Marin

Beretta
By Mariana Marin
Chemical. / Fire grass. / Retching.
Translated from Romanian by Julian Semilian
Mynheer
By Mariana Marin
Good man, my friend Mynheer . . . / Banished one day far from home
Translated from Romanian by Julian Semilian
L’apparition
By Mariana Marin
And the redeeming hour in which the poem writhes; / and the young desert in the still glowing cinders;
Translated from Romanian by Julian Semilian
Red and White
By Mariana Marin
At times reality catches me in the middle of the act / and stuffs down my throat its five-cornered red stars.
Translated from Romanian by Julian Semilian
The Karenina Complex
By Mariana Marin
If only I knew how to lose my shadow on time / if only I knew how to point myself out with my finger,
Translated from Romanian by Julian Semilian