Presentation of the volume The Poems of Transylvania

The anthology The Poems of Transylvania began to take shape in 2018. There are now 150 names of all calibers, all ages, and from all over Transylvania.

The Transylvania in the poems of this anthology is about dwelling and homeland, about history and hardship, about landscapes and people of worth, about longing and desire, about pain and hope. It is solemn, yet also stirs lighthearted frivolities. It is a place of memory and a foundation for thinking the future. It is about solitude and community. About life in the long duration of a people and about everyday life, to which it gives contour and roots. About reconciliation and non-reconciliation. About people.

It does not close itself but is ready to grow at any time. Being Transylvanian, with roots in Maramureș and Sibiu, “at home” for me means places surrounded by forests and hills. The gaze does not halt or stumble at them, but rests on them, recognizes its landmarks, and can dream, in calm, of distant horizons.