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Carmen Bugan is the author of a memoir, Burying the Typewriter, and a monograph, Seamus Heaney and East European Poetry in Translation: Poetics of Exile. Her work has appeared in Harvard Review, Modern Poetry in Translation, the TLS, and PN Review. Her poetry has been widely anthologised, most recently in Penguin's Poems for Life and Joining Music with Reason, 34 Poets, British and American, and has been translated into Italian. She was a Hawthornden Fellow, a Creative Arts Fellow in Literature at Wolfson College, Oxford, and received an Individual Artist's Grant from the Arts Council of England. She was educated at the University of Michigan, The Poets' House in Ireland, and Oxford University. Carmen lives near Geneva, Switzerland, with her husband and two small children.

Born in Romania to dissident parents, Carmen Bugan emigrated to the United States with her family at the age of nineteen. read more

Reviewed by Leonard Epp in the Balliol College Record 2005
As its title suggests, Dr. read more

David Cope, Presa , Issue 2, Winter 2006:
Romanian expatriate Carmen Bugan's slender volume is a significant contribution to the protest tradition of Milosz and Neruda, but it is also a book of exile, of journeys through and out of love, and of reconciliation. read more

Kelly Grovier, The Oxonian Review of Books , January 2005:
The cover of Crossing the Carpathians - the debut collection of poems from Romanian-born American writer Carmen Bugan - is swaddled in half-light: in dingy-blue dusk a periwinkle horse seems frozen in midstream, while all around fall small sprigs of flowers - hardly flowers, but the painted silhouettes of what were once flowers - which imprint themselves onto the curvaceous canvas of the horse's hide, as though the animal had been wading there for centuries, thus emphasizing the strange stasis of this 'crossing' scene. read more

Clare Pollard, Magma Poetry , Issue 30, October 2004:
Crossing the Carpathians argues lucidly for the timeless lyric. read more

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Carmen Bugan Books by this author: Crossing the Carpathians About Reviews Carmen Bugan is the author of a memoir, Burying the Typewriter, and a monograph, Seamus Heaney and East European Poetry in Translation: Poetics of Exile. Her work has appeared in Harvard Review, Modern Poetry in Translation, the TLS, and PN Review. Her poetry has been widely anthologised, most recently in Penguin's Poems for Life and Joining Music with Reason, 34 Poets, British and American, and has been translated into Italian. She was a Hawthornden Fellow, a Creative Arts Fellow in Literature at Wolfson College, Oxford, and received an Individual Artist's Grant from the Arts Council of England. She was educated at the University of Michigan, The Poets' House in Ireland, and Oxford University. Carmen lives near Geneva, Switzerland, with her husband and two small children. Born in Romania to dissident parents, Carmen Bugan emigrated to the United States with her family at the age of nineteen. read more Reviewed by Leonard Epp in the Balliol College Record 2005 As its title suggests, Dr. read more David Cope, Presa , Issue 2, Winter 2006: Romanian expatriate Carmen Bugan's slender volume is a significant contribution to the protest tradition of Milosz and Neruda, but it is also a book of exile, of journeys through and out of love, and of reconciliation. read more Kelly Grovier, The Oxonian Review of Books , January 2005: The cover of Crossing the Carpathians - the debut collection of poems from Romanian-born American writer Carmen Bugan - is swaddled in half-light: in dingy-blue dusk a periwinkle horse seems frozen in midstream, while all around fall small sprigs of flowers - hardly flowers, but the painted silhouettes of what were once flowers - which imprint themselves onto the curvaceous canvas of the horse's hide, as though the animal had been wading there for centuries, thus emphasizing the strange stasis of this 'crossing' scene. read more Clare Pollard, Magma Poetry , Issue 30, October 2004: Crossing the Carpathians argues lucidly for the timeless lyric. read more	Share this... Quick Links Aspects of Portugal Audio Books Carcanet Fiction Carcanet Film Carcanet Poetry Comma Press FyfieldBooks Lintott Press Lives and Letters OxfordPoets PN Review Sheep Meadow Press The Carcanet Blog Book Launch: Distance and Memory by Peter Davidson read more Sam Ruddock: Bibliodiversity read more Lucy Burnett: An Eco-poetic Sensibility read more Chris Beckett: Looking for Abebe, the cook's son read more Richard Price: A Month in Portugal read more Let's Gimbal! read more
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