ABOUT:
ANDREI CODRESCU was born in SIbiu, Transylvania, Romania, and emigrated to the United States in 1966. He is the author of numerous books: poems, novels, and essays. He founded Exquisite Corpse: a Journal of Books and Ideas. He was a regular commentator on NPR’s All Things Considered. He taught literature and poetry at Johns Hopkins University, the University of Baltimore, and Louisiana State University.
"With humor and grace, wisdom and tenderness, Codrescu transforms the commonplace into the miraculous. His work is cause for celebration." – Kay Boyle
"Andrei Codrescu lives and writes at the edge of his imagination. He is a poet of hope and political defiance, of exaltation and exuberance." – Walter Bargen
Winner of the George Foster Peabody Award
Poetry Finalist for the National Book Award
Winner of the Ovidius Prize for Literature
Heritage Award from the American Immigration Council
Winner of ACLU Freedom of Speech Award
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"The 20th century fin-de-siècle was my biography." The Author
