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Ruxandra Cesereanu. Crusader-Woman. Adam J. Sorkin with the author et ai., tr. Boston. Black Widow. 2008. 124 pages. $18.95. ISBN 978-0-9795137-5-6
While Ruxandra Cesereanu's "Only in despair can we keep and witness reality" seems to characterize - if not define - her poetic vision, the beginning and concluding poems of this collection, "Letter to American Poets" and the title poem, move beyond the wrenching, self-rending language of earlier poems like those in Lunacies (see WLT, January 2005, no), reprinted in this volume, and the third section, "Schizo."
In the first...