Ştefan Baciu, Archipelagic Poet from Romania
Ştefan Baciu, Archipelagic Poet from Romania

Summary/Abstract: Ştefan Baciu, a Romanian exile poet born in Braşov who escaped the oppression of the communist regime after WWII in his country, vastly wandered across the oceans, travelling through many cities such as Berne, Rio de Janeiro or Seattle, and reaching the Hawaiian Sandwich Archipelago. During his odyssey, he created his own cosmological geography through the poetic fusion of his fragmental memories of places and people. It was also generated by the melancholic nostalgia caused by the loss of his “home.” This article attempts to carve out the force of Baciu’s “poetry” through the “archipelagic vision” advocated by Ryuta Imafuku. He promotes an alternative view which dissolves the modern dominant and normative world-perception into the fluid and contingent world of the ocean. Imafuku was also inspired by Baciu’s poetic life to weave this vision. Their views of the world resonate with each other across the ocean.

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