Claudia Serea
is a Romanian-born poet who immigrated to the U.S. in 1995. Her poems and translations have appeared in Mudfish, Main Street Rag, Oberon, The Comstock Review, Harpur Palate, Exquisite Corpse, Fourth River, The Red Wheelbarrow, and in numerous other anthologies and journals. She is the author of two poetry collections: Eternity’s Orthography (Finishing Line Press, 2007) and To Part Is to Die a Little, selected as a contest finalist by Main Street Rag in 2009. She also writes creative nonfiction, published by The Rambler and The Writers’ Workshop Review. Claudia lives in New Jersey and works in New York for a major publishing company.We end "nowcu" with a poem made of poems. sky pours honey is comprised of poems from Claudia's chapbook, Eternity's Orthography. These poems, which stand so beautifully alone, also stand together. We see in them a purely poetic architecture, built not of foundations and arcs, but the pure force of juxtaposition. Like Macchu Picchu, there is no mortar, because the stones fit perfectly together... but imagine stones so perfectly suited that they didn't even need to touch to fit together, to form a retreat, a fort, a terraced city on the mountain. Sorry, I left Romania, but I hope you know where I stand.
-Donald Zirilli
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the sky pours honey
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