Kaddish by Radu Vancu - ISBN: 9781938890406
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Poetry from a mass grave: beauty’s defiant song against Nazi evil.
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    6 October 2026

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Summary

Writing from a mass grave to his living wife, a poet who was murdered by Nazis in 1944 reports on what happened to him, and the role of poetry and beauty when confronted with evil.

In Kaddish, Romanian poet Radu Vancu assumes the identity of the murdered Hungarian Jewish poet Mikls Radnti, taking as his starting point the notebook that was found with Radnti’s body when it was exhumed in 1946. Vancu imagines Radnoti addressing his wife in these poems - remembe…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9781938890406
ISBN-10:193889040X
Author:Radu Vancu, Sean Cotter
Publisher:Zephyr Press
Imprint:Zephyr Press
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:176
Release Date:6 October 2026
Dimensions:12mm x 152mm x 228mm
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Kaddish by Radu Vancu - ISBN: 9781938890406
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About The Author

Radu Vancu

Radu Vancu is a poet, scholar, and translator who has authored nine volumes of poetry, a novel, two children’s novellas, a collection of essays, and scholarly publications. He has received numerous awards for his literary works and edits Transilvania magazine and Poesis Internaional. He has translated works by Walt Whitman, John Berryman, and Ezra Pound into Romanian and is the president of Sibiu’s international poetry festival. He also served as the president of PEN Romania.

Sean Cotter is a translator of many works of Romanian literature and Professor of Literature and Translation Studies at the University of Texas at Dallas. His translation of Mircea Cărtărescu’s Solenoid (Deep Vellum, 2022) was awarded the Dublin Literary Prize, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, and the Romanian Cultural Institute prize for best translation of the year. Other books he has translated have won or been shortlisted for numerous other awards. Zephyr Press published Cotter’s translations of two volumes by Romanian poet Liliana Ursu: Lightwall (2009) and Goldsmith Market (2003).

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