Censored Poems

by Sorescu, Marin

• ISBN13: 9781852241957
• ISBN10: 1852241950
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2002-03-01
• Publisher: Bloodaxe Books Ltd

Summary

"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.

Table of Contents

Censoring the Poet	11	(23)
Stampa	18	(1)
Impressions	19	(1)
The big what	20	(1)
Ill-fated	21	(1)
Peasants	22	(1)
The witches	23	(1)
Deviating? Not me...	24	(1)
The ceremony	25	(1)
Again and again	26	(1)
I am the child	27	(1)
Wrong notes	28	(1)
Regarding the problem	29	(1)
Population explosion	30	(1)
Prophecies	31	(1)
Quote, unquote	32	(1)
Festus interruptus	33	(1)
Ergo sum...	34	(42)
O Gods!	35	(1)
A new kind of sacrifice	36	(1)
We live	37	(1)
The bones	38	(1)
The expansion of the universe	39	(1)
A tear from the source	40	(1)
I don't know how	41	(1)
House under surveillance	42	(1)
Here	43	(1)
They	44	(1)
The gall principle	45	(1)
Movement	46	(1)
The reward	47	(1)
The arrow	48	(1)
Two nightmares	49	(1)
The duel	50	(1)
Pretext	51	(1)
Landscape	52	(1)
The forest	53	(1)
To play the bow	54	(1)
Miracle	55	(1)
Gymnast falling	56	(1)
The report	57	(1)
Something like that, anyway	58	(2)
The scream	60	(1)
Fever	61	(1)
Sin	62	(1)
What if...?	63	(1)
Pleasant executions	64	(1)
Where, exactly?	65	(1)
A word with Polyphemus	66	(2)
Useless insight	68	(2)
Life making you sick?	70	(1)
The hat	71	(1)
I and the other	72	(1)
Knowledge	73	(1)
Lest I forget...	74	(1)
Transylvania on my mind	75	(1)
Mal du pays	76	(49)
Departing train	77	(1)
Through carbon paper	78	(1)
Dream	79	(1)
How to be a fakir	80	(2)
Patience	82	(1)
Sick with writing	83	(1)
Cavafy	84	(1)
Egoism	85	(1)
Punishment	86	(1)
Fighting on two fronts	87	(1)
Mr Thinkshort	88	(3)
Am I always me?	91	(1)
The crossing	92	(1)
Labyrinth	93	(1)
Let them come	94	(1)
Rhythm	95	(1)
Taking the bull's part	96	(4)
How	100	(1)
Now and then	101	(1)
Revelations	102	(2)
The martyrs	104	(1)
The Impaler speaks	105	(1)
Jesus	106	(1)
The resurrection of Lazarus	107	(1)
Polyptych	108	(4)
Elegy	112	(1)
Weave	113	(1)
Fairytale	114	(1)
Idyll	115	(1)
Imponderability	116	(1)
Stairway to heaven	117	(2)
Don't burn the translation - yet	119	(6)
The Chief Speaks	125