{"product_id":"five-books-by-ana-blandiana-9781780375380","title":"Five Books","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThis new translation combines five of Ana Blandiana's previous collections, three of protest poems from the 1980s followed by her two collections of love poetry.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAs one of Romania's foremost poets, and a leading dissident before the fall of Communism, Ana Blandiana's poetry has become symbolic of an ethical consciousness that refuses to be silenced by totalitarian governments.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe poems of \u003cem\u003ePredator Star\u003c\/em\u003e (1985) and \u003cem\u003eThe Architecture of Waves\u003c\/em\u003e (1990) chronicle a convulsed history and pose the question of how to resist the terror of history. \u003cem\u003eClock without Hours\u003c\/em\u003e (2014) marks a return to rhyme, as Blandiana attempts a courageous renovation of traditional verse forms. Her fiercely militant voice that helped inaugurate the postmodern idiom in Romanian poetry in 1984 has modulated over time into a new tone of forgiveness and renunciation, expressed in meditations on the fragility and vulnerability of being.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eShe has also written two collections of love poems which rank among the most beautiful in contemporary Romanian poetry: \u003cem\u003eOctober, November, December\u003c\/em\u003e (1972) and \u003cem\u003eVariations on a Given Theme\u003c\/em\u003e (2018). The second of these was composed after the death of her husband, Romulus Rusan, in 2016.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eA prolific and expansive poet, Ana Blandiana constantly re-invents herself. Her work ultimately reflects on universal issues, on human existence itself in our 21st-century consumer society.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47455562891500,"sku":"9781780375380","price":64.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/71ClFt7MBtL._SL1500.jpg?v=1774783341","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/products\/five-books-by-ana-blandiana-9781780375380","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}