"When I posted Elena Bălășanu's first poem - and it very rarely happened to me that I could evaluate a poet after reading a single text - I advised the author to solve the problem of her debut in a volume, especially since she had published in magazines and won poetry competitions. I did not know then that she had just been a finalist in the competition for the Constantin Nisipeanu National Prize for her debut in poetry. Unlike most of the young poets, very in a hurry to debut in the volume, Elena Bălășanu has worked on this volume for several years until it has acquired a certain sphericity. A lyricism that happily associates the imagistic and lexical freshness. When the poem requires it, Elena does not avoid the unusual image or the association of provocative words poem that I came across, which, without having read anything, without knowing anything about the author, I posted it on my blog page, the one on Tuesday dedicated to poetry, the Cercul poetilor apuruti..." Liviu Antonesei
