Releasing the Porcelain Birds

by Carmen Bugan

In 1989 the five members of the Bugan family were allowed to leave Ceauşescu's Romania with one suitcase each and death-threats in their wake. In 2010 the poet Carmen Bugan took possession of 1,500 pages of Securitate files on her father and in 2013 a further 3,000 pages of secret files on her mother, sister, brother and herself. Releasing the Porcelain Birds is about the transformation of that extraordinary history of Cold War Europe into poetry;...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1848614691
• ISBN13: 9781848614697
• Release Date: April 2016
• Publisher: Shearsman Books
• Length: 90 Pages
• Weight: 0.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 6.0" x 9.0"