| Censored Poems Contributor(s): Sorescu, Marin (Author), Williams, John Hartley (Translator), Ottschofski, Hilde (Translator) |
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ISBN: 1852241950 ISBN-13: 9781852241957 Publisher: Bloodaxe Books OUR PRICE: $17.06 Product Type: Paperback Published: July 2001 Annotation: "Marin Sorescu" (1936-1996) was so popular during the Ceausescu years that his readings had to be held in football stadiums and his books sold thousands of copies. While his witty, ironic parables were not directly critical of the regime, Romanians could read other meanings into them. All this time he was also writing "secret poems, " those he didn't dare publish. This volume is a selection from two books published after 1989, including borderline poems censored by the authorities as well as the riskier poems censored by the author. The book includes 10 line drawings by the author. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Poetry |
| Dewey: 859.134 |
| LCCN: 2002391386 |
| Physical Information: 0.36" H x 5.64" W x 8.54" (0.45 lbs) 128 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Romania's comic genius Marin Sorescu was so popular during the worst of the Ceausescu years that his readings had to be held in football stadiums, and his books sold hundreds of thousands of copies. While his witty, ironic parables were not directly critical of the regime, Romanians used to a culture of double-speak could read other meanings in his playful mockery of the human condition. All this time, however, he was also writing the 'secret poems' he did not dare publish then because - as Dan Zamfirescu commented - 'the gesture would have been the equivalent of suicide'. Censored Poems is a selection from two books published in Bucharest after 1989, including borderline poems censored by the authorities as well as the riskier secret poems censored by the author. |