with a preface by Andrei Codrescu 
 translations by Alexandra Carides, Maurice Edwards, and Edward Foster
Cover painting, “At the Beach,” by  Constantin Piliuta

ISBN: 978-1-58498-060-5, paper, $17.95

“Carmen’s sybilline and hypocratic personae are evident in this book of “Flesh and Words,” as are her fabulous story-telling
gifts. She is simultaneously the Chekhov of Queens and the Sorceress of the Carpathians. --Andrei Codrescu
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“In an outstanding, original way, this author knows how to endow ideas with concreteness and give an aura of imagination to realist observations.” --Nina Cassian · 

“Carmen Firan is a crafter of wickedly satirical, sly, and subtle short fictions that continually surprise the delighted reader, while illuminating some of life’s crazier and more poignant perspectives” —Isaiah Sheffer
 
“Who is Carmen Firan? A voice broken by exile like glass shattered against a rock. But all these pretty shards, in the naked light, said something, too, to this woman who can’t leave language alone; and patiently she gathered them, risking the cuts, to fashion a new, fractured voice for a New World.” --Bruce Benderson
 
“Blending the subtlety of a poet, the passion of the novelist and the dramatic sense of the playwright, Carmen Firan’s beautiful and powerful writings, charged with gloom and passion, recreate her struggles not only with life and love, with her history and ours, but with the beasts of language, whether invasive or voracious or fugitive.” --Harry Mathews 


 


 




translations
by Alexandra
  Carides, Maurice
Edwards, and Edward Foster