Hard lines: Romanian poetry, truth, and heroic irony under the Ceausescu dictatorship. (Artists and Dictators)

Poets in Romania under the dictatorship of Nicolae Ceausescu could always count on their audience to recognize and savor nonconformist truths that were subject to censorship by government officials. Several poets and their works, which illustrated heroic irony and oblique, hard lines, are discussed for the effects their work had on Romania's great poetry.