Anastasia Cojocaru

Anastasia Cojocaru is a recent graduate of The University of Aberdeen (2016) in English and International Relations. She is currently pursuing a master’s degree in Environmental Policy at Sciences Po Paris. She is a queer woman of Romanian heritage. Her poetry and prose are inspired by her memories growing up in post-communist Romania, the time she spent abroad, her travels around Europe, and her experiences as a person of her background in Anglophonic and Francophone countries. She writes about moments that she has been affected by in a way that helps her process and understand what she feels. She also loves practising yoga, blogging (at livinteresting.wordpress.com), cycling, and dancing tango.

“To Pain”, “Bosom Story” and “I Hear You’ve Settled In”

In the prose poem “To Pain,” the poet addresses her pain directly and forces it to the surface, giving it an immediate presence. Employing the same rhetorical device—the apostrophe— in “I hear you’ve settled in,” the poet addresses her absent lover, inviting the reader to listen too. “Bosom Story” is a narrative and as reachable.
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