The Romanian Cultural Institute in New York (RCINY) invites you to the performance Poets and digital performers, an event organized by a group of contemporary musicians and dancers led by Dinu Ghezzo at NYU around Romanian poet Ioana Ieronim and her book Omnivorous syllables.

Part of the cycle dedicated by RCINY to arts interaction, Poets and digital performers initiates experiments with the connective character of contemporary arts and aims to translate the words of one language into the words of another, but also words into music, gesture, and imagery, hoping to transgress all traditional boundaries.

To young Romanian critic Iulia Popovici: Ioana Ieronim’s 'Omnivorous syllables' is a poetry of passage, roaming the earth, the languages of the universe in a celebration devoid of Hinterland.

The poetry of Ioana Ieronim is a postmodern pilgrimage through an open, globalized world, leading its protagonists from one continent to another, from one language to another, from one literature to another, from one plane to another. Like most poetry in English, the writing of Ioana Ieronim is prompted by exteriority, by an outward pulsating life, filled with intercontinental flights and rides, emails and supermarkets. Yet, also present are the village of her birth, as well as all real and potential birthplaces, alive under the passage of childhood years. The Transylvanian universe of Risnov, her parents’ town, is omnipresent in her writings joined to the nostalgia for a fuzzy God, flapping enormous urban wings:" there’s a moment when the city truly sleeps/ and gods frolic among the pointed buildings/ they hide from their ruling lord seducing his brides/ stealing crumbs from his greater secrets/ no more than a moment each night." ('My Life Line as a Sky-scraper')

Why 'Omnivorous syllables'? They are self-devouring syllables, engulfing and regurgitating an aggressive reality, thus taming it. Pacifying, clarifying it, toning down its roar and turmoil.