Cyber Corpse 2
Exquisite Corpse - A Journal of Letters and Life
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The Romanian Avant Garde

Ilarie Voronca, born Eduard Marcus in 1903 in Braila, Romania. Poet and theoretician of the Romanian avantgarde. Publishes in avantgarde magazines of the twenties and thirties, such as Punct, 75HP, Integral. Moves to Paris in 1933. During the war he is active participant in the French resistance. Commits suicide in Paris in 1946 while working on his book "Manual for Perfect Happiness".

Goe Bogza, born in 1908 in Ploesti, petroleum center of Romania. Active member of the Romanian avantgarde in the twenties and thirties. Arrested for his "Poem Invective" book, on charges of usurping morality. Travels to Spain in 1937 as war correspondent. After the war becomes correspondent and then academician and state poet. It is the younger Bogza we love.

Julian Semilian teaches film editing at the North Carolina School of the Arts; he has published his poems and translations in Exquisite Corpse, Arshile, World Letter, Suitcase, Syllogism, Mr. Knife & Mrs. Fork, Transcendental Friend, Vatra, Romania Literara, etc. His translations of Paul Celan's Romanian poems are coming our this year from Green Integer.

Sanda Agalidi is a writer, translator, and art historian. She teaches art history at California Institute of the Arts.

The Romanian poet Radu Andriescu is the author of three books of poetry, **Mirror Against the Wall** in 1992, **The Back Door** two years later in 1994, and most recently, **The End of the Road, the Beginning of the Journey** (1998). Andriescu is a lecturer in the Faculty of Letters of the Alexandru I. Cuza University of Iasia. Other poems by Andriescu have previously appeared in English in **City of Dreams and Whispers**, edited by Adam Sorkin, and are forthcoming in **Cider Press Review**.

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