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Poems in Prison: The Survival Strategies of Romanian Political Prisoners
- Irina Dumitrescu (author)
Chapter of: Rumba under Fire: The Arts of Survival from West Point to Delhi(pp. 15–30)
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| Title | Poems in Prison |
|---|---|
| Subtitle | The Survival Strategies of Romanian Political Prisoners |
| Contributor | Irina Dumitrescu (author) |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.21983/P3.0134.1.05 |
| Landing page | https://punctumbooks.com/titles/rumba-under-fire/ |
| License | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/ |
| Copyright | Dumitrescu, Irina |
| Publisher | punctum books |
| Published on | 2016-02-29 |
| Long abstract | In the region of Maramureș in northern Romania, close to the River Prut and the Ukrainian border, two monuments express the ways in which human beings struggle to hold on to beauty, art, and humour in the face of annihilation. The first of these is Cimitirul Vesel, the cheerful cemetery, where in 1935 the sculptor Stan Ioan Pătraș began to etch folksy poems into the town’s tombstones. The result is the brightest graveyard imaginable, in which each oaken memorial includes a carving or two of the deceased in their natural element—at the plow or with a horse for the older graves, or sitting at a desk for the more modern ones — along with a rustic verse description of the individual’s life and death, written in the first person. The whole is painted in vivid Crayola blue, red, yellow, and green. What emerges from this forest of colorful wooden steles is a chorus of voices, the departed citizenry of Săpânța claiming a right to their brief stories on this earth. |
| Page range | pp. 15–30 |
| Print length | 16 pages |
| Language | English (Original) |
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