The poet Ștefan Manasia is Nicolae Coande's guest at the cultural event "Poets' Gathering", Friday May 5, 5 p.m.
One of the famous poets of the 2000 class, Ștefan Manasia will read from his poems and hold the conference "Trilobite, ammonite, orthoceras - larii și penații poetului”.
Admission is free.
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Author:
I strongly believe in the shamanic power (beyond the subtexts and contexts of the new digital age) of poetry. Some of us have this superpower that I unfortunately often see mocked, used – like all superpowers – in the service of a perishable ideological agent or a (promiscuous) career or… I mean, having the superpower but being a Wernher von Braun, to go (unrepentantly) from the Nazis to the Americans packaging the same evil and the same death, developing them with skill, with genius (which is your superpower)... I think you have to rot for a long time in dilemmas, in self-mockery, fumbling, to swim like salmon upstream until you activate your – truly and benignly – superpower.
"Manasia is the domesticated wild man who read books, chose his masters or they chose him: Lowry, Salinger, Hrabal, Melville, some gentlemen who know what life is (so also literature), famous musicians, Radiohead , Oasis, Vulture I don't know how, but also charismatic contemporaries, Acosmei, for example, a poet who has been writing on the same book for over 30 years and still exists […] Sensory and on the prowl, a carnivore with an alert eye inside, weaned by feelings that demand appropriate words and some scientific knowledge, Manasia's poem develops a spiral of hyperspace in which, strangely-strangely, says Saramago's character, the soul is humble, as small as a quark (which has flavor, you know), which only the new cyclops of the modern world see it—the telescopes of scientists discovering the light of the dying star. Today we see it - and it has no history." (Nicolae Coande, The Poet Hunter's Handbook).
The “Timer maps the most diverse environments, provided they stimulate the senses and produce little revelations. What Ștefan Manasia succeeds in prose is triggering and maintaining these epiphanies in Ginsbergian environments, immune to the eviscerated reality and in permanent anamorphism. Thus, Manasia builds, despite the deliberate fragmentation of the novel, its own system of navigation through the world, of involved observation, to which the authorial voice, most often in the first person, reacts organically and ritualistically." (Teona Farmatu, Vatra, no. 12/2020)
