The God's Orbit
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Aura Christi is a romantic in classic disguise, reminding one of Hölderlin, Rilke or Emily Dickinson, with a unique approach, at the same time mythical and mystical, to the eternal themes of poetry, giving precedence to the individual's inner and outer exile. While the metonymic postmodern fad is of no interest to her, she favors the hymnal and the solar with tragic twists, with divine praise and self-dissolution clashing, in a language purified of every redundancy, but not lacking in allusive complexity.
In The God's Orbit, her most successful collection of poetry, Christi strikes the reader by her seraphic serenity, inspired, as she confesses, by Fra Angelico's mural paintings; hers is the attitude of someone who, after crossing a Dantean bolgia, (a hell's ditch), after vanquishing the monsters of the Inferno, has left the drama of lucidity behind and reached a point in which reality, though still uncontrollable, has no more obscure niches. In naturally flowing lines, full of a sober inner musicality, that support a painful and clear vision of life, the often inimical gods slowly turn into God, the all-pacifying. The book is like a shout to the sky and divinity, forceful, convincing, defying today's society and pointing to where salvation might come from.
Aura Christi
Aura Christi is a Romanian poet, novelist, essayist, journalist, and editor. She was born on January 12, 1967, in Chișinău, The Republic of Moldova (formerly the Moldavian Soviet Socialist Republic), where she graduated from the State University, School of Journalism (1990). In 1993 she retrieved her Romanian citizenship and settled in Bucharest, Romania's capital. There she has had a meteoric rise as a poet, novelist, dramatist and essay-writer, with more than thirty-five books to her credit, and many national and international prizes. Christi's poems have been translated into French, Russian, English, Swedish, Greek, Italian, Spanish, Hungarian, Macedonian, Chinese, Korean, Bulgarian, Polish, Albanian, etc. She has traveled widely to read her literary work and delivered lectures as a guest at festivals, symposia, and congresses in Israel, Greece, The People's Republic of China, France, Germany, Turkey, The Russian Federation, Macedonia, Italy, Bulgaria, as well as in The Republic of Moldova.
Petru Iamandi
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PETRU IAMANDI, PhD, is an associate professor with the English Department of the Faculty of Letters, Dunărea de Jos University of Galați, Romania, and a member of the Romanian Writers' Union. Among the most prominent authors he has translated are Nobel Prize winners John Steinbeck, Nadine Gordimer and Harold Pinter, the Man Booker Prize winner Richard Flanagan, and the Women's Prize for Fiction winner A. M. Homes.
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