Dr. Alexandra Balm (nscut
Un gest spre
Dumitrescu)
S-a nscut la Cluj n 1974, unde a studiat la liceele tiinele
Naturii i Gheorghe incai. A absolvit Literele n 1998, iar
n 1999 a terminat un masterat de Studii Americane,
lucrnd cu renumitul anglicist Virgil Stanciu. n 2001 a
propus conceptul de metamodernism n literatur, iar n
2014 a obinut titlul de doctor de la Universitatea Otago cu
o tez despre Metamodernitate n Literatur. Este
cercettoare la Universitatea de Tehnologie din Auckland
(Noua Zeeland), unde studiaz pentru un Masterat de
Scriere Creativ.
Alexandra scrie poeme, povestiri i studii literare. A
publicat n reviste din Noua Zeeland, America, Australia i
Europa: Takah, Tui Motu, Exquisite Corpse, Noise Medium,
Double Dialogues, Inter-textes, Echinox, Tribuna i Creier,
Cognitie, Comportament, precum i n volume colective la
Rodopi, Facts on File, Napoca Star, Monster Fish. n 2000 a
tradus, mpreun cu Ioana Nan, Romnii i Romnia de
Ioan Aurel Pop (Columbia UP).
Alexandra are o minte n continuu freamt care i gsete
linitea n meditaie, cnd scrie, sau cnd se plimb de-a
lungul Strzii Birkenhead pe muzica unei simfonii de
mirosuri care i-ar face i pe orbi vizionari. Odat pe cnd
cltorea cu trenul n Auckland, citind poezii de Michael
Harlow, Nothing for it but to Sing, la ieirea dintr-un tunel,
i-a dat seama ce nseamn poezia: acel moment de
frumusee ce face ca griul unor clipe fr culoare s apar
colorat. E bucuria ce strlucete discret desubtul straturilor
superficiale ale existentei, cel mai adesea nebgat n
seam. E muzica neauzit pus n cuvinte.
forma uman divin din noi toi.
Dr Alexandra Balm (ne
Dumitrescu)
Was born in 1974, in Cluj, Romania. She has a BA and an
MA in American Studies from the University of Cluj, where
she worked with the renown Anglicist Virgil Stanciu. In 2001
she proposed the concept of metamodernism as a cultural
paradigm and a period term. In 2014 she was awarded a
PhD from the University of Otago, with a thesis about
Metamodernism in Literature. She is a part-time
researcher at AUT, where she is working for a Master of
Creative Writing.
Alexandra writes poems, short stories and literary studies.
She published in journals in New Zealand, USA, Australia
and Europe: Takah, Tui Motu, Exquisite Corpse, Noise
Medium, Double Dialogues, Inter-textes, Echinox, Tribuna
and Brain, Cognition, Behaviour, as well as in collective
volumes at Rodopi, Facts on File, Napoca Star, Monster Fish.
In 2000 she jointly translated with Ioana Nan Romanians
and Romania by Ioan Aurel Pop (Columbia UP).
Alexandra Balm is a restless questioner who finds respite
only when she meditates, writes poems or stories or when
she walks down Birkdale Road to a symphony of fragrances
that would make even the blind see. One day when she
was travelling by train with Michael Harlows latest poems
Nothing for it but to Sing, just when emerging from a bleak
tunnel, she realised what poetry is: that moment of beauty
that makes the grey of colourless moments colourful. It is
the joy that shimmers under the superficial layers of
existence, most of the time unseen. It is the unheard music
of life put to words. A gesture towards the human form
divine that lives in all of us.