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No Way Out Of Hadesburg And Other Poems

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In Romania under communist rule, forbidden to write but allowed to work as a builder on Ceausescu's palace, Ioan Es. Pop lived alone in a batchelor block. His poetry is an autobiographical account of this time. A life with no way out. Having originally been a teacher in a village that he later gives the fictional name of Hadesburg, Pop's writing expresses his response to such a life. The world of the poems is a closed, boundless, imaginary space charged with dramatic and tempered by a bittersweet, compassionate existential angst. This is hadesburg and anywhere you run to will be hadesburg.No Way Out of Hadesburg is the product of a sympathetic imagination, the expression of a genial, compassionate sensibility. Pop's gift is for understated comedy rather than mordant protest at life or excoriation of human destiny. This is true despite the centrality of the story about the death of Mircea, the speaker's double, with whom he lived in unbearable cold one long winter without wood for heating

Language: English

Pages: 128

Format: Hardcover

Publisher: University of Plymouth Press

Release: January 01, 2010

ISBN: 1841022098

ISBN 13: 9781841022093

No Way Out Of Hadesburg And Other Poems

4.2/5 ( ratings)

In Romania under communist rule, forbidden to write but allowed to work as a builder on Ceausescu's palace, Ioan Es. Pop lived alone in a batchelor block. His poetry is an autobiographical account of this time. A life with no way out. Having originally been a teacher in a village that he later gives the fictional name of Hadesburg, Pop's writing expresses his response to such a life. The world of the poems is a closed, boundless, imaginary space charged with dramatic and tempered by a bittersweet, compassionate existential angst. This is hadesburg and anywhere you run to will be hadesburg.No Way Out of Hadesburg is the product of a sympathetic imagination, the expression of a genial, compassionate sensibility. Pop's gift is for understated comedy rather than mordant protest at life or excoriation of human destiny. This is true despite the centrality of the story about the death of Mircea, the speaker's double, with whom he lived in unbearable cold one long winter without wood for heating

Language: English

Pages: 128

Format: Hardcover

Publisher: University of Plymouth Press

Release: January 01, 2010

ISBN: 1841022098

ISBN 13: 9781841022093

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