Ilya Kaminsky about my new poetry book - Hipster, time IS honey

It is no secret that Romanian poetry today is—by far—the strongest poetic generation in Eastern Europe, the way the Russians were in 1920s and 1930 or the Polish were in 1950-1970s. Romanian poetry is wild, memorable, full of images that wake us up from our capitalist dream turned nightmare. Lorca’s dictum that « poet is a professor of five senses » is alive and well among contemporary Romanian poets whose work is full of sensual world. Felix Nicolau’s work in these powerful new translations by Margento is a perfect example of what Romanians today can do in English. His poems sing in a way that Cattulus was singing.