The Bridge

by Marin Sorescu

The Bridge is Marin Sorescu's farewell to life: a book of wryly quizzical poems composed from his sickbed over five weeks as he waited for death to take him, his testament not just to human mortality and pain but to resistance and creative transformation. The Bridge is unlike any other poetry book: like a medieval dance of death but sombre in movement, a procession of breathlessly spoken, painfully comic poems.

Marin Sorescu was a cheerfully...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1852245778
• ISBN13: 9781852245771
• Release Date: January 2004
• Publisher: Bloodaxe Books
• Length: 98 Pages
• Weight: 0.34 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.4" x 8.5"