At 11:00 PM 1/07/00 -0400, you wrote: >Ioana: Your appearance on this list made me dig out my copies of Roy >MacGregor-Hastie's translation of Mihail Eminescu and Michael Impey and >Brian Swann's translation of Tudor Arghezi, which for years were bedside >books of mine. I've found Nina Cassian a little too sweet, and I've >read Stanescu (in translation, I stress again) but don't remember much >of his work ... If you can recommend any good translations of current >people I'd appreciate it. - FP Thanks, it's good to be asked about Eminescu and Arghezi and not about Ceausescu and Dracula. (I also have a hard time explaining that I'm not an orphan and Dan Petrescu is not my brother.) I'll dig up some translated material for you and will send the info backchannel. Ioana %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%