Erotic, Erratic, Heretic…

Tanasescu, Chris
(2016) Moods & Women & Men & Once Again Moods - An Anthology of Romanian Contemporary Erotic Poetry — ISBN: [9786066645621], p. 10-33, published

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Abstract
The poems selected in this anthology (proposed as distinctive, provocative, extravagant, and exotic) were chosen by a poet, not a literary critic. I want to be very clear on this point. In the more than 20 years since the Romanian revolution of December, 1989, I have read over five hundred volumes of poetry. I have read none of these books with the eyes of a literary critic, but rather with the eyes of a fellow poet (a fellow poetess, if you will). I proceeded in the same way with this anthology. In other words, I solicited poets for this anthology by instinct, not only when their poems spoke to my poetic sensibilities, but also when they shouted out against them (I solicited over seventy poets out of which forty eight responded). In this way, without renouncing my own poetics, I hope to also represent fervent readers of Romanian poetry of every type, style, and fashion. Of course, these poems are bound together by one central theme: love, the erotic, the sensual, etc. Above all, I hope the American readers will be satisfied by my aesthetic choices and fully sated by the poetic carnival offered in this book.
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Ruxandra Cesereanu. (2016). Erotic, Erratic, Heretic…. In Moods & Women & Men & Once Again Moods - An Anthology of Romanian Contemporary Erotic Poetry (p. p. 10-33). Calypso Editions. https://hdl.handle.net/2078.5/107936