| Secret Weapon: Selected Late Poems of Eugen Jebeleanu
Author Biography
Photo by Tudor Jebeleanu |
Eugen Jebeleanu (1911-1991) is one of Romania’s best-known poets and public figures. From 1930 to 1980 he published over twelve collections of poetry, and won several of Europe’s most important poetry prizes, among them the Italian Taormina and the Austrian Herder. He was nominated by the Romanian Academy for the Nobel Prize, and befriended some of the world’s most illustrious poets, including Pablo Neruda, Rafael Alberti, Salvatore Quasimodo, Yannis Ritsos, and others. Secret Weapon, published in Romania in 1980, was his final collection.
About the Translators:
Poet Matthew Zapruder is the author of American Linden (Tupelo Press) and The Pajamaist (Copper Canyon), winner of the 2007 William Carlos Williams award. He teaches in the MFA program in Creative Writing at the New School in New York City, as well as at the Juniper Summer Writing Institute at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst, and is an editor with Wave Books. He lives in New York City.
Born in Bucharest, Romania, Radu Ioanid is an historian based in Washington, D.C. He is the author of several books on Romanian history and the Holocaust, including Sword of the Archangel, The Holocaust in Romania, and The Ransom of the Jews: The Story of the Extraordinary Secret Bargain Between Romania and Israel. He works as Director of the International Archival Programs Division at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum.
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