DUMITRU PĂCURARU

Dumitru Păcuraru – The debut in 1988 with the book „Miere de Viespi” presented by Nicolae Manolescu and Ion Gheorghe, is followed after a considerable time period by „Salutator universal” (ed. Limes, Cluj, 2008). By the same author: „Versuri/ Versek” (AB-ART, Budapesta, 2009), „Poeme din altă carte” (Brumar, Timișoara, 2010), „Aurel Popp, între două culturi” (RAO, București, 2017), „Punctul de inversare a memoriei” (Max Blecher, Bistrița – Școala Ardeleană, Cluj-Napoca, 2017) „Măcelăria și alte poeme” (Tracus Arte, București, 2019), „În atelierul lui Aurel Popp” (Tracus Arte, București, 2019). Upcoming novels: „Irascibilul domn Vasko” and „Two minutes from the life of Mr. Titu Maiorescu”. Dumitru Păcuraru’s poetry (1955), a journalist, political commentator, monograph author, director of “Poesis” magazine, is between the limits established by Romul Munteanu in 1989 and Felix Nicolau in 2017.

Romul Munteanu: „Rakish poetry in which the words collide like two trains coming from opposite directions on the same track, a paradoxical way of thinking which rarely arises from known national models, a brutal manner of entering in dialogue with the universe or with the loved woman, an inversion of sombre or amusing states, a literature with several entrances and exits in a space with few words written by Dumitru Păcuraru. I do not know who this debut poet is with a way of stating words similar to a punch in the plexus. All that became outdated in the Romanian language is forged, the lead soldiers of the words become real. A new face of the literary rebelliousness, well directed, is seen in Dumitru Păcuraru’s poetry.”

Felix Nicolau: „Undoubtedly, Dumitru Păcuraru is an experienced and an experimental poet. You need subtlety to identify his poetic essence since the poet Dumitru Păcuraru himself cannot be identified, as he is an  uncommon multiple. Different from one volume to another, he is an avant-garde writer, a ruthless and uncensored author of the 80s (as no one could in the 80s) and something new as well. The range of the writing style is astounding, the same as the movement from the higher register towards the lower – and vice versa.”