…what do I think of Adrian Paunescu? Let me say just this (and get into huge trouble…). If indeed someone, some excellent anthologist, who understands and loves poetry, AND has utmost artistic integrity – would be allowed to trawl through the thousands of poems of Adrian Paunescu, get rid of all the dross, she or […]

As a young man, and with many other students and young intellectuals attracted to the nationalistic fervor of the times, he became Member of the Iron Guard and the Legion of St.Michael the Archangel (a right wing, fascist movement which wrought terror and held government for a few months at the end of 1940 and […]

"So what’s a heart? I’m hungry! I want to live, desire… Oh, do forgive me maiden, my dearest in the fire! I doze. How tall the fire! The forest, how replete! I weep. What’s father thinking? I eat and weep. I eat!" These verses, written some 65 years ago by a 20-year-old, have long entered […]