In Episode 7 of the journey through Romanian Poetry in English we will mee the poet, and cultural revolutionary Tristan Tzara. Born Samuel Rosenstock (16 April 1896 in Romania – 25 December 1963 in Paris) – Tzara is arguably the initiator, or at least a most important catalyst, leader, and practitioner of the anarchist anti-establishment […]

This session deals deals with the poems of the one-man-band of Romanian poetry, as Nicolae Manolescu labelled him, beacuse Arghzei reinvents himesel with every volume and soemtimes within a single volume. I have him in may top 3 Romanian poets. Who is the other one? I will keep that to mysemf. We reprezent four of […]

You can count on one hand the living, poets who are represented with more than one poem in the volume Testament – 400 Years of Romanian Poetry (authors Daniel Ionita – with Daniel Reynaud, Adriana Paul and Eva Foster – Minerva Publishing – 2019). Camelia Radulian is one of them. Her lyrical voice is as […]

In this session I present the profile and some representative poems of „the most attractive ugly woman who achieved greateness in Romanian Poetry” (Alex Stefanescu). Nina Cassian is certainly in the top 10 Romanian poets for me. She has done it all, and done it exceptionally well, from aburdist-surreal, to socialist-realism, to romantic, to post-modern, […]