Mircea Ivănescu

Mircea Ivanescu (Romanian pronunciation: [ˈmirt͡ʃe̯a ivəˈnesku]; March 26, 1931 – July 21, 2011) was a Romanian poet, writer and translator, and a forerunner of Romanian postmodernism, which was characteristic of the 1980s. His translations from global literature into Romanian include James Joyce, Franz Kafka, and F. Scott Fitzgerald.

Background[]

Prolific poet, debuting with Lines in 1968, Ivănescu has published almost every two years a new volume during four decades. His lyrics, often depicting a day-to-day I disguised as "mopete" (an anagram of "poet" and "poem" it was thought, but the poet himself denied it in an interview^[1]), has rehabilitated narrativity in Romanian poetry in the seventies, echoing American post-war major poets. He won the Mihai Eminescu Poetry Prize (1998) and was proposed by Romanian Professional Writers Association for Nobel Prize in 1999.

Poetry collections[]

• Versuri (EPL, 1968)
• Poeme (Eminescu, 1970)
• Poesii (Cartea Românească, 1970)
• Alte versuri (Eminescu, 1972)
• Poem (Cartea Românească, 1973)
• Alte poeme (Albatros, 1973)
• Amintiri (Cartea Românească, 1973)
• Alte poesii (Dacia, 1976)
• Poesii nouă (Dacia, 1982)
• Poeme nouă (Cartea Românească, 1983)
• Alte poeme nouă (Cartea Românească 1986)
• Versuri vechi, nouă (Eminescu, 1988)
• Poeme alese (1966–1989)
• Poeme vechi, nouă (Cartea Românească, 1989)
• Versuri (Eminescu, 1996)
• Poezii (Vitruviu, 1997)
• Poesii vechi şi nouă, antologie (Minerva, 1999)

References[]

External links[]

• Poems by Ivănescu