The Rope in Bloom (Paperback)
Language: English
Published by The University of Chicago Press, 2026
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Paperback. The first English translation of a Romanian poet's celebrated and devastating 2012 collection. In 1997, when he was nineteen, Radu Vancu discovered the body of his father, who had hanged himself in the family home. In the dark years that followed, Vancu turned to literature and self-medication. By 2009, after a decade of "Schopenhauer and vodka" and the publication of seven influential volumes of poetry and essays, Vancu was married, newly sober, and expecting his first child. With these themes in mind-bereavement, love, fatherhood, and poetry-he began writing Franghia inflorita, or The Rope in Bloom, a poem of Dantesque ambition and scope. Through twenty-four cantos interwoven with prose vignettes, Vancu revisits the scene of the suicide and speaks with the lost soul of his father, who guides and advises him. Each canto begins with the same lines: What your dead one, what the best- beloved of your dead loved ones says to you when you have the heart to dream of him: Vancu's verse depicts a nightmare underworld, at once terrible and banal, containing both rivers of blood and family movie nights. Prose vignettes punctuating the book narrate tender years in the early life of a new family. Here, the poet appears in everyday moments, watching cartoons with his son and seeing his wife off to work. Together, the cantos and prose accumulate into a charged collection, where the loss of a father looms over the joy of becoming one. This volume is the first full-length English translation of Vancu's work, marking a long-overdue introduction of the poet to anglophone audiences. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…
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- Title
- The Rope in Bloom (Paperback)
- Author
- Radu Vancu
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press
- Publication year
- 2026
- Condition
- new
- Binding
- Paperback
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0226851559
- ISBN 13
- 9780226851556
The first English translation of a Romanian poet’s celebrated and devastating 2012 collection.
In 1997, when he was nineteen, Radu Vancu discovered the body of his father, who had hanged himself in the family home. In the dark years that followed, Vancu turned to literature and self-medication. By 2009, after a decade of “Schopenhauer and vodka” and the publication of seven influential volumes of poetry and essays, Vancu was married, newly sober, and expecting his first child. With these themes in mind—bereavement, love, fatherhood, and poetry—he began writing Frânghia înflorită, or The Rope in Bloom, a poem of Dantesque ambition and scope. Through twenty-four cantos interwoven with prose vignettes, Vancu revisits the scene of the suicide and speaks with the lost soul of his father, who guides and advises him. Each canto begins with the same lines:
What your dead one, what the best-
beloved of your dead loved ones says to you
when you have the heart to dream of him:
Vancu’s verse depicts a nightmare underworld, at once terrible and banal, containing both rivers of blood and family movie nights. Prose vignettes punctuating the book narrate tender years in the early life of a new family. Here, the poet appears in everyday moments, watching cartoons with his son and seeing his wife off to work. Together, the cantos and prose accumulate into a charged collection, where the loss of a father looms over the joy of becoming one.
This volume is the first full-length English translation of Vancu’s work, marking a long-overdue introduction of the poet to anglophone audiences.
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About the Author
Radu Vancu is university professor of arts and letters at the Lucian Blaga University of Sibiu. He is the author of eleven volumes of poetry and numerous books of prose. He has also contributed important translations into Romanian, including volumes by W. B. Yeats, Ezra Pound, and John Berryman. Vancu is editor of Poesis International and Transilvania, founder and organizer of the annual international poetry festival “Poets in Transylvania,” and former president of PEN Romania. Paula Console-Șoican is a lecturer at the University of Kansas and translator, with Cyrus Console-Soican, of Mircea Ionescu-Quintus’s The Devil’s Grinder: Poems of Hope and Despair from the Forced Labor Camps of Post-WWII. Cyrus Console-Șoican teaches at the Kansas City Art Institute. He is the author of the poetry collections Brief Under Water, The Odicy, and The Wayfarer.
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