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In over half a century of cultural journalism, as a member of few literature festivals juries, and with tireless readings of whole poetry series, I had the chance of discovering some Romanian poets of the generations following World War II, who wondered me with a frisson of delight. Some obediently confirmed the test of time, others unfortunately got lost on the way. And, frankly, I was sorry.

The bizarre times came during and after the so called 1989 Revolution when the Romanian culture did pass and still does through literary vortexes, this Brownian movement is indeed baffling. Just when I thought this dangerous morass was about to take over, I realized ipso facto that I was part of a Revelation. It is exactly what happened to me when Daniela Cupşe (maiden name of Daniela Apostoaei) sent over the Atlantic to me her poetry series “Blue Embrace”, so I would be the curator and help publishing it - oh my God, what a small world the Planet Earth has become, as Marshall McLuhan said, “a global village”! - and surprised beyond belief I realized that I was holding in my hands the work of a poetess inspired by gods, yet so far hidden in a shell of an unjustified modesty, dedicating her carrier here and there to papers in Maramureş county, Romania, her birth place, and medieval town of Târgovişte - where we were colleagues for a while in the same Press Trust, thinking that I knew her, and yet I had no idea of her poetic grace - nowadays in the maple leaf country, province of Alberta, where she lives in an exile by choice.

All of a sudden, not long ago she decided to confront her poetic destiny and to accept it. As they say “never say never“, Daniela Cupşe asked me to give her a collegial viii

friendly hand and support her lyric public quest in which she dared to step into. I did not think twice and I did it as they say in Law with celerity - she is also a graduate of Law. I only did it after her poetry totally conquered me, her modern meta-phrasing writing being wrapped into a blue velvet of longing.

She is sapphic and engaged to a passionate and graceful erotism alike the ancient Bilitis, the love lyric of Daniela Cupşe remembers us of Mihai Eminescu’s magic feelings, her poetry being covered into an emotional aura of mystery. The Sunset was carrying the city on its hind / while you were drawing question marks on my temples / Then gingerly you polished a sizzling tear / framing it into a crying icon / So much that I wanted you to stay!... a calligraphy of persuasive surprise that is Daniela Cupşe. She is the One that comes. And like myself the readers will have the revelation. I take full responsibility and I announce on my own knowledge the rise of an exceptional poetess in the Romanian writers’ new millennium. It is up to her to walk the path and keep convincing us all. I welcome her by all means into the Agora of the Romanian literature.

George Coandă, PhD in Literature

Full Member of the American-Romanian Academy

of Arts and Sciences, California, USA