Cemetery Ink: Poems

In poems of compassion and social justice, Mihaela Moscaliuc probes borders and memory to work through, and further complicate, understandings of belonging--from places (including her native Romania) and histories, to ways of knowing, loving, and grieving. If the wounded populate these poems, so too do goats, black swans, centipedes, dismembered dolls, and wandering wombs. The ekphrastic sequence on Rousseau's The Sleeping Gypsy honors stories of Roma people while addressing issues of (mis)representation and epistemic violence. As in previous collections, cemeteries become sites of power, holding the living accountable.


Author: Mihaela Moscaliuc
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
Published: 04/06/2021
Pages: 70
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.35lbs
Size: 8.80h x 5.90w x 0.30d
ISBN13: 9780822966579
ISBN10: 0822966573
BISAC Categories:
- Poetry | Women Authors
- Poetry | American | General

About the Author
Mihaela Moscaliuc is the author of the poetry collections Immigrant Model and Father Dirt and the translator of Liliana Ursu's Clay and Star and Carmelia Leonte's The Hiss of the Viper. Her awards include two Glenna Luschei Awards, residencies at the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, MacDowell, and Le Chateau de Lavigny, and a Fulbright fellowship to Romania. She is associate professor of English at Monmouth University.