LIFE ANEW. Writers Imagine the World after the Pandemic / Simona Popescu

In times of calamity and social distress, it was often the writers who were called to imagine how the world would heal its wounds and begin again. Inspired by the creative examples of the past, we have summoned an extraordinary ensemble of authors and translators and challenged them to picture by way of prose and poetry how life re-emerging from the black silence of the pandemic may look like. We continue the series, created together with the National Museum of Romanian Literature, with sophisticated poet, novelist and academic SIMONA POPESCU, a true heiress of the influential Romanian avant-garde generation of the interwar years, translated by Phoenixian ANDREW K. DAVIDSON, academic, translator and poet who now calls Bucharest his home.  

Watch the video on our FACEBOOK, YOUTUBE and WEBSITE from Tuesday, July 7, 2 p.m. EDT (or anytime later).

Poet, novelist and essayist SIMONA POPESCU teaches avant-garde and postmodern Romanian…