Carmen Bugan is the author of Crossing the Carpathians, a collection of poetry. She was educated at the University of Michigan and Balliol College, Oxford. She lives in Geneva with her husband and two children.
Posted By Rosanna Boscawen on Wednesday 30th May 2012
This wonderfully evocative poem appears at the beginning of Carmen's memoir, Burying the Typewriter, which details what happened to her and her family, isolated and under surveillance during the Ceauşescu regime in România.