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Comrade
Past & Mister Present
Poems
by Andrei Codrescu
"This
perpetual outsider offers ample evidence that even as
his life grows more settled, he continues to push at
his own outer limits. . . . [Codrescu] shifts effortlessly
from comic surrealist to naturalist, philosopher to
saint to madman, but he is always the seeker after transcendence,
in thrall to the unknown." - The New York Times
Book Review
"In
Comrade Past & Mister Present . . . [Codrescu] exploits
his conflicting experiences as foreigner and naturalized
American, activist and contemplative, rebel and respectable
citizen. . . . Known as a surrealist, Codrescu has more
method than dream madness. The strongest of the poems
here evolve through crafted differences of perspective
and value." - Leland Krauth, Small Press
"Shards
of past and present, glued together with Codrescu’s
satirical humor, comprise the poems in this collection,
some of which are funny, some touching, some earthy,
other incomprehensible. . . . This Romanian poet who
lived behind the Iron Curtain knows no sacred cows.
He makes no bones about stating his observations of
American life." - Sarah Sue Goldsmith, The Baton
Rouge Advocate
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