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Secret Weapon: Selected Late Poems

Secret Weapon: Selected Late Poems

Jebeleanu, Eugen
Zapruder, Matthew
Ioanid, Radu

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General Poetry

Publisher Price: $15.00

ISBN10: 1566892066
ISBN13: 9781566892063
Publisher: Coffee House Press
Published: Feb 1 2008
Pages: 116
Weight: 0.46
Height: 0.22 Width: 6.15 Depth: 8.90
Language: English
The first English translation of one of Andrei Codrescu's favorite Romanian poets.

As a state-sanctioned Romanian poet who later regretted his complicity with the Ceausescu government, Eugen Jebeleanu's experience, as chronicled in his poetry, is an enlightening representation of life under the conditions of Communist totalitarianism. Trapped between his clear understanding of the government's corruption and his fear of public opposition, the poet's rage and impotence found an outlet in his spare, allegorical later poems. Appearing in English for the first time, these poems are profoundly unsentimental, yet deeply moving expressions of collective and personal guilt. Both Andrei Codrescu's introduction and the translator's preface provide context for Jebeleanu's politically and artistically significant lyric testimonies.

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