Evanescent by Maria-Cristina Necula

$19.99

 

In Maria-Cristina Necula’s finely crafted poems, things are fleeting and short-lived, leaving exquisite memories that sparkle with grace and insight.  She consults a fortune teller with a “husky Madame cigarette voice,” whose eyes “weave blue question marks” to her “hazel distress.” She remembers a chair “creaking a cricket’s song inside a cloud of smoke,” and, most hauntingly, a fleet of ladybugs committing suicide in the Black Sea.  A beautiful, evocative, and highly imaginative collection.

–Patricia Morrisroe, author of The Woman in the Moonlight. 

 

From her heart to ours, passing though the spirit, from the physical to the metaphysical, via meditation and metaphor, the poems of Maria-Cristina Necula’s collection Evanescent surprise, stimulate and move us.  The poem becomes a locus of inquiry, of knowledge and self-discovery, and serves as a bulwark against the troubling and often destructive forces of time.  Whether in free verse or ingenious rhymes, these little gems will touch you and take you to new places in your mind and your emotions.  Hers is a unique voice, with an image-making capacity all its own.

–Ronnie Scharfman, Ph.D., award-winning author of Engagement and the Language of the Subject in the Poetry of Aimé Césaire and the poetry collection In Poem & Prayer

 

The poems assembled here in Evanescent will stay with you long after you finish reading. The music of these words will play on in your memory, burned into song in your mind.

–Joseph Tirella, author of the New York Times bestseller, Tomorrow-Land, poet and fiction writer.

 

 

 

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Evanescent

by Maria-Cristina Necula

$19.99, Full-length, paper

978-1-64662-771-4

2022

Maria-Cristina Necula is a Romanian-American writer, poet, and singer based in New York. She holds a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from The Graduate Center. Her dissertation-based book, The Don Carlos Enigma: Variations of Historical Fictions was published in 2020 by Academica Press. She has given talks on opera, languages, and literature at The Graduate Center, Baruch, The City College of New York, and UCLA Southland. Necula studied classical singing in New York, Bucharest, and at the Universität für Musik und darstellende Kunst in Vienna, and has performed at Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall, Merkin Hall, Florence Gould Hall, and the Westchester Broadway Theatre, among other venues. Her first book, Life in Opera: Truth, Tempo, and Soul (Amadeus Press, 2009), offers a collection of encounters with famed personalities of the opera world and several personal essays. Necula is also a translator of six languages. Her rhymed translation of Molière’s comedy The School for Wives was performed in Canterbury, England. Her French and English translations of testimonials by noted international personalities collected in Europe à la carte (éditions le cherche midi, 2009), including her own contributions to the book, honored the fall of the Berlin Wall’s 20th anniversary. A regular contributor to the culture & society website Woman Around Town and Classical Singer magazine, Necula has also been published in Studies in European Cinema, Das Opernglas, and Opera News. Please visit https://www.mariacristinanecula.com.

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