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Alina Stefanescu

@alinaetc.bsky.social

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poet. writer. editor. reviewer. translator. corrupted bibliomaniac. exists in romanian and alabamian. hybrid in she/her dreams. self-deleting. self-ghosting. www.alinastefanescuwriter.com

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Alina Stefanescu @alinaetc.bsky.social · Sep 8

Grateful beyond words to Candice Daquin for reviewing my heresies for @worldlittoday.bsky.social, and to @sarabandebooks.bsky.social for publishing the book itself and to @kristenmiller.bsky.social for everything that holds it together. 🖤

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My Heresies by Alina Stefanescu

Sarabande Books. 2025. 118 pages.

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Alina Stefanescu @alinaetc.bsky.social · 3h

“Exiled among the living, I have made myself a soul to fit my dwelling.”

― Jean Genet, Our Lady of the Flowers

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Alina Stefanescu @alinaetc.bsky.social · 3h

Louise Nevelson loved hats. And I love her. Which is perhaps why I get annoyed by critics who leverage the "bad mother" plot. It's okay to realize that nurture and caregiving is not your forte. It's fine to say a young human deserves better than the care one can offer. Most kids need more than us.

Alina Stefanescu @alinaetc.bsky.social · 4h

Ever since B born, nothing comes clear. My mind like a mirror that's been in a fire. Does this happen to the others.

- C. D. Wright, "Living"

Alina Stefanescu @alinaetc.bsky.social · 4h

And you can never, ever find words for it.

- Marguerite Duras, "Bonnard" (t. by Barbara Bray)

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Alina Stefanescu @alinaetc.bsky.social · 4h

It grew on me, this harp.

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Broken Harp

YouTube video by PJ Harvey - Topic

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Alina Stefanescu @alinaetc.bsky.social · 3d

Truly

Alina Stefanescu @alinaetc.bsky.social · 3d

Let us return to our own case, the duel between the visible and the invisible, the reporting of which threatens to carry us away. And let that which follows be the logical prologue of a highly meaningful adventure in which the cipher-concealing fables served as an excuse to the forces that would like to see me invisible, and which concealed my cipher beneath images of scandalous visibility.
—Jean Cocteau, Diary of an Unknown

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Alina Stefanescu @alinaetc.bsky.social · 3d

No, it's in a ponytail

Alina Stefanescu @alinaetc.bsky.social · 3d

You all inspired me as well. Truly. ❤️

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Alina Stefanescu @alinaetc.bsky.social · 3d

The music that is inside me.
The music that is in silence, in possibility
May it come and amaze me.

— Paul Valery, Notebook VI

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Alina Stefanescu @alinaetc.bsky.social · 3d

When you find yourself beneath the hearts carved by others into bark and you wonder if they look back at this tree fondly. Or with rue. Or as music.

Shadow against a lower tree trunk of woman with hair back in ponytail and wearing a backpack

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Alina Stefanescu @alinaetc.bsky.social · 3d

Blue, blue windows behind the stars,
Yellow moon on the rise,
Big birds flying across the sky,
Throwing shadows on our eyes.

Happy saturn's day to all who celebrate.

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Helpless

YouTube video by Nick Cave - Topic

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Alina Stefanescu @alinaetc.bsky.social · 3d

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Alina Stefanescu @alinaetc.bsky.social · 5d

the rest of my days I spend
wandering: wondering
what, anyway,
was that sticky infusion, that rank flavor of blood, that poetry, by which I lived?

- Galway Kinnell, "The Bear"

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Alina Stefanescu @alinaetc.bsky.social · 5d

That nip in the air this morning made me so happy.

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A Thousand Hours

YouTube video by The Cure - Topic

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Alina Stefanescu @alinaetc.bsky.social · 6d

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Alina Stefanescu @alinaetc.bsky.social · 6d

The impossibility of imagining something they might correspond to, the impossibility of finding some substitute for what in visions they embrace, all this weighs on one like a judgement given one knows not where, by whom, or why.

- Fernando Pessoa

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Alina Stefanescu @alinaetc.bsky.social · 6d

evergreen

Alina Stefanescu @alinaetc.bsky.social · 6d

"Forget the books you want to write. Think only of the book you are writing."

- Henry Miller

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Hannah Grieco @writesloud.bsky.social · 6d

Reminder! Tonight, @alinaetc.bsky.social and I will be reading and talking about poetry and prose collections. 🥰

Free, but RSVP for the link!

writer.org/event/grieco...

Virtual Craft Chat w/ Hannah Grieco & Alina Stefanescu - The Writer's Center

The Writer’s Center presents a FREE virtual chat about the craft of writing! We’re joined by fiction writer Hannah Grieco and poet Alina Stefanescu for a cross-genre discussion about their new collect...

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Alina Stefanescu @alinaetc.bsky.social · 6d

still hanging on one foot,
and nothing on my mind

- Leonard Cohen, doing his best at Mt. Baldy in the book of longing 🖤

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Alina Stefanescu @alinaetc.bsky.social · 7d

Isn't it brilliant? And rather apt for the present, in that time out of time.