Linda Maria Baros (born on the 6th of August 1981 in Bucharest) is a French-language poet, translator and literary critic, one of the most powerful new voices on today’s poetry scene (the famous French literary award Guillaume Apollinaire Prize – 2007 and The Poetical Calling Prize – 2004). She lives in Paris, France.
Member of the Mallarmé Academy (Académie Mallarmé) since 2013
The house that nursed you told you perhaps,
at night, the story of mine horses:
Mine horses are born and live in the depths;
between gallery walls one finds their house,
...
Dawn is a woman
who breaks your windows with her breasts
-reddened are her nipples
that the bums suck...
...
There are days when you would like to make yourself a place
on the windowsill, strolling there secretly,
eyes closed, as if on a hypnotic bridge,
...
The floor donkey carries you on his back,
trotting exhausted between the walls,
their whitewashed utopias
-also alive, their petrified troops,
...