A Sharp Double-Edged Luxury Object

Poetry. Translated from the Romanian by Adam J. Sorkin with Antuza Genescu. Critics have praised Draghincescu as "the Amazon of Romanian Literature, destined to be victorious where so many men hesitate, get confused and fail: in the perverse labyrinth of the word that lacks any cultural connotation and in the power to render viscerally the imperceptible vibrations of human existence... she is the "creator of the singular universe,"... a "rebel poet" who writes "with the nerves of a pamphleteer and the shamelessness of a surgeon."