Censored Poems

by Marin Sorescu

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'...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1852241950
• ISBN13: 9781852241957
• Release Date: July 2001
• Publisher: Bloodaxe Books
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 0.48 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.6" x 8.5"