Atwater Library and Computer Centre

Monday, December 12th, 2005

Oana Avasilichioaei is a poet and translator. She also teaches Creative Writing at Dawson College, organizes the Atwater Poetry Project, and occasionally exhibits text-based installations. This fall, her first, full-length collection of poems, Abandon, was launched with Wolsak & Wynn (Toronto). A collection of translations of Romanian poet Nichita Stanescu, Occupational Sickness, will be published by BuschekBooks (Ottawa) in the spring. Abandon melds the legends of Romania with the country's contemporary reality. Through characters such as a dictator, a king's illegitimate daughter and a provincial aunt, the book takes a journey through abandoned landscapes and myth-making tales.

To listen to Lynn Verge introduce Oana click here!

To listen to Oana read click here!