Between Silence and Sin

To one of the world’s most brutal dictatorial regimes, poetry represented the last molecules of freedom and the poets who dared to speak the truth became icons – and enemies of the Romanian Communist state. Ana Blandiana, one of Europe’s most important yet overlooked poets, is a symbol in the fight for democracy and freedom of speech, values that are again under threat around the world. A history reflected in poetry, Between Silence and Sin explores the power of the word as the last bastion of a nation’s collective soul in the face of oppression.