BOOK LAUNCH – POETRY LOVERS…
You are invited to join me to welcome my book to the world 
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I’m very grateful to the Consulate General of Romania in Toronto, specifically to Madame Consul Oana Raluca Gherghe, for generously accepting to host my launch, and to Professor Dr. Crina Bud (Glendon College) for agreeing to present the book. Many thanks also to the League of Canadian Poets and Toronto Arts Council, which funded the launch.
“Praying to a Landed-Immigrant God / Rugându-mă la un Dumnezeu emigrant” is Diana’s seventh collection of poems and her first book published in Canada. It is published by Jordan Fry and designed by Priscilla Brett (Grey Borders Books, Niagara Falls, ON).
The poems written in Romanian during her first 13 years here, co-translated with Adam J Sorkin, testify to Diana’s journey at the crossroads of postcommunism and postcolonialism, hope and anxiety, “love in exile” and loneliness.
The book ends with “Deflowering English,” in Romanian and English, and in 7 more languages, exploring the relationship of Finnish, Persian, and Russian immigrants to English vs. the “deflowering” of other imperial languages, Dutch, French, German, and Spanish, elsewhere.
The book is now available in print and as e-book at https://greybordersbooks.
