A Romanian Poem
she has every chance of becoming the Auden of her time. Her intensity, her
industriousness, her scientific passion, her lively and elemental belief in love, conspire to
round out the Man of Letters. The name of the book is taken from an orchestral work by
Romania's greatest composer, a close friend of Andreea Iulia Scridon's great-grandmother—an opera singer with whom Enescu performed for the King of Romania. Following her debut book, in her second language, Romanian, these poems in her native English tongue
constitute a single whole poem: they find in the glory of an incident a dramatic portrait of
a national character.”
—Ben Mazer