Poems and Tales from Romania

The volume collects poems and short prose drawn from Romanian literary and oral traditions, presented in English alongside Romanian originals. Lyric pieces range from spare modernist meditations to evocative folk-inspired verse, dwelling on memory, loss, nature, and domestic and mythic imagery. Short tales retain oral rhythms and folkloric motifs, blending dreamlike episodes with moral or reflective edges. Organization alternates poetry and stories, offering varied tones and registers and a sense of cultural continuity between contemporary poetic experiment and traditional storytelling.