Andreea Iulia Scridon
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Ana Blandiana: Poet, Civic Figure, Woman
Photo: Miguel Ruiz Durán Andreea Iulia Scridon Though her name may only be familiar to relatively few readers globally, Romanian poet, essayist, and translator Ana Blandiana (b.1942) is one of her – mostly male – generation’s (the “60s Generation” or less commonly “Neomodernist Generation”)[1] most acclaimed poets, and arguably the most…
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‘All the Roads that Lead to Eminescu’: on the great Romanian poet
Andreea Iulia Scridon The name Mihai Eminescu isn’t likely to ring an immediate bell for Anglophone readers, but would certainly deserve to, having circled the globe quite a few times. The man unanimously considered Romania’s greatest poet was first translated into German (by the Romanian Queen of the time, Elizabeth, who wrote…
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‘Glossa’: a poem by Andreea Iulia Scridon
Glossa (in response to M. Eminescu) Remember how you starfished your way across the pool of infinity bay how you and paradise made eye contact beyond the winding slide’s colorful digestive tract how the clouds were milky pterodactyls in the sky how you met the ocean’s eye how you spun…