Remembers of The Life Time

Ioan Rusu
Hyperion Publishing House, Craiova, Romania (2002) (Translated from Romanian to English)
ISBN 973939535X
Reviewed by Irene Watson for Reader Views (4/06)

“Remembers of The Life Time” is a compilation of poetry by a Romanian poet, Ioan Rusu. Since freedom of the press is not a long-held value in Romania, it wasn’t until recently that Rusu was able to publish his book.

The passion and the dream of becoming a poet comes through in Rusu’s writing. His poetry takes the reader through a gamut of emotions:

Communist View. I cross along the starve town in the night. Ghosts at windows look the gray of the sky. Cold and nobody is in the streets. My footsteps ring on sidewalk and the shadow lean more and more. The death with her mowing comes in the town.

And:

The autumn is coming see me crying. I don’t know but there are years run away… On paths, in their shivering, leaves are going for ever and I wish in the thick of the woods lonely to die…

Rusu’s words ring his truth, living in a world of a dark future. The depth of his poetic license pulls on the heart strings of the reader. The pieces are moving and make us contemplate the freedom we have living in this country.

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