Trafika Europe 4 - Armenian Rhapsody

Landscape, People and Birds (eight poems)

Adrian Oproiu

Writer translator Adrian Oproiu was born in Curtea de Argeş, Romania, in 1980, and has been living in Zagreb, Croatia since and

2009. He has an M.A. degree in Philosophy at the University of Bucharest, worked as a teacher of Philosophy and Logic in Romania, and is now a university instructor of Romanian Literature in Croatia. He translates from Romanian into Croatian and vice versa. His first volume of poetry, Căpcăunul ierbivor , was published in 2012 in Bucharest. He has also written short prose and essays for Romanian and Croatian literary magazines. You can find a terrific poem-essay of his, on the poet's elusive relation with words (living inter-culturally), in a recent Trafika Europe Corner column, here .

Poems translated from Romanian by Goran Čolakhodžić and the author.

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