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Releasing the Porcelain Birds, Paperback / softback Book

Releasing the Porcelain Birds Paperback / softback

Paperback / softback

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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.

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