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Summary: These spare and allegorical later poems of Romania's great poet, Eugen Jebeleanu (1911 - 1991), are deeply moving expressions of collective and personal guilt from an artist whose early participation in and later disillusionment with the regime lend his work a particular, searing authenticity. Appearing in English for the first time, these profoundly unsentimental poems are politically and artistically significant lyric testimonies.