Photographs by Virginia Joffe Poems by Carmen Firan Carmen Firan’s words are filled with the magical realism of a place that seems, occasionally, like ultrarealism, and at others, like pure fairy-tale while Virginia Joffe’s memorable photographs portray unique hybrid creatures that have emerged in Romania from the cracks between millennia. Firan’s prose and Joffe’s images record the turning over of the wheel of time, the changing of once seemingly immutable orders, the anguish of people struggling to escape history and to understand themselves. About the Authors: CARMEN FIRAN, born in Romania, is a poet and fiction writer. She has published ten books of poetry, a novel, essays and short stories, as well as several plays and film scripts. Her writings appear in translation in many literary magazines and in various anthologies in France, Israel, Sweden, United Kingdom, and the United States of America. VIRGINIA JOFFE, a photographer and writer, studied at the International School of Photography. She is a graduate of the Columbia University Graduate School of Social Work, and a former president of the New York Women`s Foundation. She has traveled to Romania four times, and her exhibition, Romania- Sites of Its Memory, was held in 2000 at the East-West Gallery of the Romanian Cultural Center in New York City. Joffe’s work has been shown in numerous venues in the United States and is in many private collections. An exhibition of her work is planned to tour in Romania. Hardcover with jacket / $39.95 USD 10.5" x 7.5" / 80 pages Duotone photographs June 2005 ISBN: 978-1-8841671-95 Website price: $19.98

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