Andrei Codrescu
and Ruxandra Cesereanu accomplished the ineffable at the Romanian
Cultural Institute in New York on April 14 and at the venerable,
long-loved Poetry Center at St. Marks-in-the-Bowery at 8:00 PM on
Wednesday, April 15. The poets read from The Forgiven Submarine
their book-length collaborative poem (Black Widow Press: 2009)
Recently out
from Andrei Codrescu: Jealous Witness:
New Poems (Coffee House Press, with a CD by the New Orleans
Klezmer All-Stars) and The Posthuman Dada Guide: Tzara and
Lenin Play Chess, just published by Princeton
University Press. Poet, novelist, essayist, film-maker, maker of
happenings and fomenter of Dada today, Codrescu broadcasts
regularly on NPR and edits Exquisite Corpse, online at corpse.org.
He lives in New Orleans and the Ozarks.
Ruxandra
Cesereanu is one of Romania’s best-known poets, author inter
alia of Grădina deliciilor (The Garden of Delights), Zona vie (Live Zone), Veneţia cu vene violete (Venice with Violet Veins), and Crusader Woman (Black Widow: 2008). She
writes on politics and art and blogs powerfully on her daily site mesmeea. Cesereanu lives in Cluj, Romania, and is a professor
in the Center for Imagination Studies at Babes-Bolyai University.
Following their
presence Live and Dada in New York City, Codrescu and Cesereanu to
their poetry show on the road with stops in New Orleans, Baton Rouge,
and points in-between, until April 19.
