Winner of the Corneliu M Popescu Prize for European Poetry in
Translation The Bridge is Marin Sorescu's farewell to life: a book
of wryly quizzical poems composed from his sickbed over five weeks
as he waited for death to take him, his testament not just to human
mortality and pain but to resistance and creative transformation.
The Bridge is unlike any other poetry book: like a medieval dance
of death but sombre in movement, a procession of breathlessly
spoken, painfully comic poems. Marin Sorescu was a cheerfully
melancholic comic genius, and one of the most original voices in
Romanian literature. His mischievous poetry and satirical plays
earned him great popularity during the Communist era. While his
witty, ironic parables were not directly critical of the regime,
Romanians used to a culture of double-speak could read other
meanings in his playful mockery of the human condition. But later -
like a hapless character from one of his absurdist dramas - the
peasant-born people's poet was made Minister of Culture.
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