Nominated for the Nobel Prize and winner of the Herder Prize, Nichita Stanescu is the most celebrated postwar Romanian poet. His world is one where angels and mysterious forces converse with the everyday and earthbound, where love and passion and a quest for truth are central, where urgent questions...

Nominated for the Nobel Prize and winner of the Herder Prize, Nichita Stanescu is the most celebrated postwar Romanian poet. His world is one where angels and mysterious forces converse with the everyday and earthbound, where love and passion and a quest for truth are central, where urgent questions flow, where the inanimate is animate. His startling images cut deep; his ideas and feelings are expressed simply. Humour and pain mingle.