Releasing the Porcelain Birds Carmen Bugan

Releasing the Porcelain Birds by Carmen Bugan

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Releasing the Porcelain Birds is about the transformation of that extraordinary history of Cold War Europe into poetry; it is about writing the self free and how poetry drawn in a new and tender narrative can do this. In this manner Releasing the Porcelain Birds is one continuous poem which faces down dispossession and reaches towards exuberance.

Releasing the Porcelain Birds by Carmen Bugan

In 1989 the five members of the Bugan family were allowed to leave Ceausescu's Romania with one suitcase each and death-threats in their wake. In 2010 the poet Carmen Bugan took possession of 1,500 pages of Securitate files on her father and in 2013 a further 3,000 pages of secret files on her mother, sister, brother and herself. Releasing the Porcelain Birds is about the transformation of that extraordinary history of Cold War Europe into poetry; it is about writing the self free and how poetry drawn in a new and tender narrative can do this. In this manner Releasing the Porcelain Birds is one continuous poem which faces down dispossession and reaches towards exuberance.

Carmen Bugan was born in Romania in 1970 and emigrated to the US with her family in 1989, following her father's imprisonment for protesting against the Ceausescu regime. She was educated at the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor), Lancaster University, The Poets House (Ireland), and at Balliol College, Oxford, where she obtained a doctorate in English Literature. Hear an interview with her here on US Public Radio. In addition to two previous collections of poems, Crossing the Carpathians: Poems (Oxford Poets/ Carcanet: 2004) and The House of Straw (Shearsman, 2013), she has written a critical study on Seamus Heaney and East European Poetry in Translation: Poetics of Exile, and Burying the Typewriter: Childhood Under the Eye of the Secret Police, a memoir: the American edition of this book has won the Bread Loaf Conference Bakeless Prize for Nonfiction and the English edition was BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week and shortlisted for the George Orwell Prize for Political Writing. Bugan has been a Creative Arts Fellow in Literature at Wolfson College, Oxford and a Fellow at the Hawthornden International Retreat for Writers in Scotland. She She now lives near New York with her husband and children.

Releasing the Porcelain Birds Carmen Bugan

Releasing the Porcelain Birds by Carmen Bugan

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