translated from English to Romanian by Nadia Brunstein
Reviewed in Itaca nr. 45, March 2024
Confessions of a Surrealist Poet in Wanderings
Emanuel Pope
(editor “Itaca” magazine-Dublin)
Translated from original Romanian
Once upon a time, in ancient times, the legend of the traveling God circulated through our lands. That God inspected his well-done work, his creation. And I am convinced that such a character was not only found in our mythology. Just as I know very well people who sheltered him, cared for such a guest at night, and the next day woke up with all their family in cloistered palaces. They became rich and famous, true beauties of embodiment, amazingly talented and learned. And that is why I think while reading, browsing and re-reading In the Blink of a Third Eye, the volume of poems by the author Valery Osteanu, published by the Museum of Romanian Literature in 2023, that it is certainly the book of a magical concept…
Read the full review in Romanian,
pages 10-12