The Shadow of Words by Ana Blandiana, translated by Paul Scott Derrick & Victoria Patea illustrated her voice has deepened and

her voice has deepened and strengthened as its subject matter has widened from bereavement and life in a psychiatric unit to more general difficulties with men

of their death and decay – all in and around the house of the writer

And from the very earliest times

After his first gratuitous exercises when he was 22 and striving to commit himself to love poetry

The Shadow of Words by Ana Blandiana, translated by Paul Scott Derrick & Victoria Patea illustrated her voice has deepened andAna Blandiana is one of Romania's foremost poets, a leading dissident before the fall of Communism, and now one of her country's strongest candidates for the Nobel Prize. A prominent opponent of the Ceauescu regime, Blandiana became known for her daring, outspoken poems as well as for her courageous defence of ethical values. Over the years, her works have become the symbol of a moral consciousness that refuses to be silenced by a totalitarian