Mouths Dry with Hatred, by Dan Sociu

Addressing the tensions arising from politics, the bureaucracy of government, fatherhood, and the domestic life in Romania, his poems are Bukowski-esque in their formal gestures–beautiful raves against all that is wrong in this world, and beautiful odes to all that is right. Compassionate, perceptive, and continually surprising, Dan Sociu’s poems are full of gusto and passion, written by a poet for whom poetry matters. –Denise Duhamel