Codrescu's Amour, New Orleans

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Codrescu's Amour, New Orleans
July 5, 2009
Susan Kirby-Smith
Examiner.com

New Orleans, Mon Amour offers a wonderfully personal glimpse into the life Andrie Codrescu has found in and around New Orleans. Through these vignettes Codrescu presents unique details of New Orleans; restaurants and bars in the French Quarter, primarily grand-dame Antoine’s and laid-back Molly’s on the Market; the quietness and grand old beauty of the Garden District; parades; spooky New Orlenean phenomena; and finally, the destruction and heartbreak of living in New Orleans during Hurrican Katrina, the subsequent failure of the government to aid the people of New Orleans.

Codrescu, for those who don’t know, is a Romanian-born radio journalist, poet and novelist. Through his twenty years producing radio segments for NPR, his poetry, and his novels he has become a remarkably distinctive voice of New Orleans. Having recently published The Posthuman Dada Guide: Tzara and Lenin Play Chess, a guide to Dada thinking, and Forgiven Submarine, a poetic collaboration with Romanian poet Ruxandra Cesereanu, Codrescu is still very active in the New Orleans literary life, often reading or speaking at various literary festivals and at the Goldmine Saloon’s weekly literary series.