The Author in His Own Words ___________________________ Deceptively self-contained, gently ironic and stylishly parodic, Mircea Ivănescu's poetry is a source of intrigue and fascination. A noted translator of English and German literature including James Joyce's monumental text Ulysses and works by Franz Kafka and William Faulkner, Ivănescu is regarded as one of Romania's most important contemporary writers. source: amazon.co.uk ________________________ #romanianpoetry #mirceaivanescu #elisium #snapabook #books #booksofinstagram #bookstagram #bookstagrammer #instabook #instareads #igreads #epicreads #booklife #biblio #bibliophile #read #goodreads https://www.instagram.com/p/BtMNQT5nBnE/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1l3dtios069by

Gabriel Liiceanu in dialog cu Mircea Ivănescu _______________________ #mirceaivanescu #poetry #romanianpoetry is poetry different? you mustn't tell stories in poetry - i read this advice to a young poet - so i won't tell how she'd awaken very early in the morning and, sitting up in bed, wait to catch her breath, her face hidden in her hands - i won't say anything about her weary look that made her shoulders droop before the mirror, when slowly she combed her hair. i won't confess my fears beside her estranged face, turned away from me. i won't walk anywhere with my lines in my hands as if holding a mirror to reflect those mornings with their pale grey light moments before dawn. poetry - so it's written - mustn't be representation, a succession of images. poetry must be inward speech. thus, should i be speaking again about her drowned face, her gasps for breath? but that would be only my way of speaking about her face, about her freeze-frame movements fixed between layers of turbid regret, of thoughts solely mine, about her image - it would be only a mask, an image - while she - her true self, what about that? #snapabook #elisium https://www.instagram.com/p/BtMMvWxHcHl/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=16v7g8jhj6msg