Stella Vinitchi Radulescu's poetry dwells in spaces of paradox, seeking out the words, metaphors, and images that capture both the peaceful stillness of snow and the desperate cry of human experience. A Cry in the Snow often draws on these two fertile tropes: the beauty of nature and the power and limitations of language. A trilingual poet who has published in French, English, and her native Romanian, Radulescu seeks to harness the elemental aspects of human experience, working between language and the mysterious power of silence. Combining poems from two French-language collections, Un Cri dans la neige (A Cry in the Snow) and a poetic prose sequence, Journal aux yeux fermes (Journal with Closed Eyes), this collection presents the distinctive and powerful French poems of Stella Vinitchi Radulescu to an English-language readership for the first time.

...what I like in the undervoice and the subterranean narrative threading it all together, the world speaking its mind only as a conduit for stark awareness of the damaged and beautiful self...(selves).
All the big themes here, in an intimate whisper, in shocking disbelief, gushing with desire - amazing lyric poetry.
David Dodd Lee, poet and editor,
Half Moon Bay Editing
These unexpected and often category-breaking lines give us Stella Radulescu's acute sense of chaotic, lonely and metaphysically absurd where before death without resurrection our hope and reality is the unbearable beauty of a dream-turtle with blue eyes or a snowflake on the tip of the tongue or where before dawn on the Black Sea we can leave our bodies long before time.
Prof. Paul Friedrich, Anthropology & Linguistics,
University of Chicago
Poetry apparently emanates from Stella Vinitchi Radulescu as any essential element from source. Her work is that lucid and pure. Such understated elegance cannot be taught, only learned from a deep life.
Richard Fammeree, poet and director of
UniVerse of Poetry.org
Sans doute, faut-il voir dans ce cheminement de langages l'origine de cette recherche du mot juste, de cette economie de fioritures verbales qui permettent a Stella V. Radulescu, laureate 2007 du Prix -Art & Poesie- de nous offrir une poesie libre de haute qualite, ou les sons creent l'image, ou l'image s'infiltre au trefonds de l'etre pour faire vibrer les cordes les plus sensibles du coeur.
Veronique Flabat-Piot,
Vice-Presidente de la Societe
des Poetes et Artistes de France