Research Catalog

Title

Letters from darkness : poems / by Daniela Crăsnaru ; translated by Fleur Adcock.

Author

Crăsnaru, Daniela

Publication

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1991.

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Details

Additional Authors

Adcock, Fleur

Description

x, 47 p.; 22 cm.

Summary

"This collection shows two quite different facets of [Crăsnaru's] talent. The first part is a selection from work published during the 1980s, using a subtle, figurative, allusive style developed as a way of conveying messages to discerning readers without incurring official wrath. The second half of the book ... contains a selection of outspokenly subversive poems, which she wrote during the last years of the Ceauşescu regime, but had to keep hidden in a box of onions in her aunt's cellar, as her own flat was liable to be searched. ..."--Back cover.

Series Statement

Oxford poets

Uniform Title

• Poems. Selections. English
• Oxford poets

Alternative Title

Poems.

Subject

Crăsnaru, Daniela > Translations into English

Genre/Form

Translations

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Part one: Published poems (Pietà ; Simple rhymes ; Possible definition ; Orphic ; The window in the wall ; Pastel ; Darwinism ; Vampiriad (I) ; Vampiriad (II) ; The lost war ; Autumn poem ; Image of childhood and a horse in World War II ; Indigo, Violet ; The lions of Babylon ; Writing lesson ; Fairytale in fragments ; Sunset Boulevard ; A basket of cherries ; Last train ; Oxygen) -- Part two: Letters from darkness (Fame ; My private Hyde Park ; Orpheus in the underworld ; Price-list ; Supply and demand ; Cheese ; Polonius ; Love poem in captivity ; Camouflage poetry ; Oxford Street ; A private affair).

ISBN

0192828835

LCCN

^^^91009839^

OCLC

• 23286494
• SCSB-10510802

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library