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Life and Love Through Poetry: Poems
Paperback
Series: Romanian Poetry Around the World
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Feb 27 2026
Pages: 156
Weight: 0.35
Height: 0.33 Width: 5.00 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
Life and Love Through Poetry by Elena Dreglea brings together a luminous selection of poems shaped by sincerity, emotional clarity, and quiet inner strength. Translated from Romanian by Anamaria Poenaru and Vasile Poenaru, this volume invites English-language readers into a poetic world where life is examined with moral attentiveness and love is experienced as a force of presence, tenderness, and renewal.
Structured in two complementary parts - Life Through Poetry and Love Through Poetry - the book moves between reflection and intimacy, between ethical wakefulness and emotional devotion. In the first section, Elena Dreglea writes about awareness, struggle, dignity, illusion, self-deception, endurance, and the need to live truthfully. In the second, she turns toward love in its many forms: longing, fidelity, shared vulnerability, desire, tenderness, and the hope of lasting union.
What makes these poems memorable is their directness. They do not hide behind abstraction or rhetorical excess. Their language remains close to lived experience - leaves, roads, water, silence, dawn, fire, the human face - yet these simple elements open into larger meditations on destiny, kindness, suffering, joy, and spiritual resilience. Elena Dreglea's voice is intimate without being confessional, accessible without losing depth, and emotionally open without sentimentality.
A distinctive feature of the volume is the brief motto that precedes almost every poem. These short meditative lines act as thresholds, guiding the reader toward the inner axis of each text and creating a reading experience that is both contemplative and immediate. The result is a collection that asks not merely to be admired, but to be inhabited.
Part of the series Romanian Poetry Around the World, this Kindle edition offers contemporary Romanian poetry in a fluent and natural English rendering, preserving the warmth, cadence, and emotional gravity of the original voice. Life and Love Through Poetry is a book for readers who value lyric sincerity, reflective writing, and poems that speak clearly about what matters most: truth, hope, love, and the art of remaining fully human.
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