”Exerciții de vindecare”
”Healing Exercises”

Summary/Abstract: The poetic universe of Ileana Mălăncioiu, both phantasmatic and traumatic, is strikingly singular, revealing an outraged consciousness that embraces the theme of death. A poetry in black and white, as Ion Mircea observed—vital yet indebted to rustic demonism—revives anonymous memory with its ritualistic demands, bearing "archetypal guilt" (cf. Iulian Boldea). Through heightened perception and incursions into the "other world," the realm of shadows, her work signifies "another way of feeling reality" (cf. E. Negrici). The sap of an ancient, harsh rural moralism undoubtedly irrigates the poetry of one who, from Pasărea tăiată (The Slain Bird, 1967—a modest debut) to Urcarea muntelui (The Ascent of the Mountain, 1985—an "editorial bomb," in the words of the seasoned M. Sântimbreanu), has radicalized her discourse, affirming that "the time of melancholy has passed."

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