GHEORGHE CRĂCIUN: POEZIA MODERNĂ ÎNTRE „AISBERG” ŞI „TITANIC”
GHEORGHE CRĂCIUN: MODERN POETRY BETWEEN "AISBERG" AND "TITANIC"

Summary/Abstract: The dispute about transitivity and intransitiveness in poetry, initiated by T. Vianu, came back to life especially in the 80s, when postmodernists pleaded, and still does nowadays, for a kind of poetry close to concrete everyday reality, freed from the canons of reflexivity. The issue is debatable. Spirits stir between complexity and negation. By categorically giving up reflexivity, we risk depriving poetry of the energy of revelation, of ‘memory’, of latent support. The underground, in this case, threatens not only poetry; it also reaches the prestige of hermeneutics itself. Only in the organic unity of the two modes of knowledge can poetry secure a new perspective. An example worthy of discussion, in this sense, is the synthetic volume ‘The iceberg of modern poetry’ (Piteşti, Paralela 45, 2009) as the main topic of the present study, a book signed by the theorist Gheorghe Crăciun, specifically committed to this issue, with an afterword signed by another illustrious Romanian theorist, Mircea Martin.

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