01
1984
Poetry
The Sunday of Things Real
Junimea Publishing House · Iași, Romania
Poetry · Fiction · Essays
Writing
A bibliography spanning four decades, from poetry and fiction to essays on art and sacred architecture.
19842026
24 volumes and editions
02
1994
Poetry · Romanian/English
Wall and Neutrino
Vlasie Publishing House · Pitești, Romania
Translated by Liviu Martinescu. Included in Marin Mincu’s Contemporary Romanian Poetry (Pontica, 2000), with fragments later published in After the Wall Fell: Dispatches from Central Europe (1989–2014) by World Literature Today (November 2014). Bucovina Cultural Foundation Award.
03
1997
Poetry · English edition
Wall and Neutrino. The Poet in New York
Minerva Publishing House · London
English version by Liviu Martinescu.
04
1998
Poetry
Improvisations on Armonic Key
Axa Publishing House · Botoșani, Romania
05
1998
Poetry · Romanian/English
The Axolotl
Mașina de Scris Publishing House · Bucharest, Romania
The first renga book in Romanian literature. Translated by Liviu Martinescu. Bucovina Cultural Foundation Award, 1999.
06
2002
Selected poems
The Alchemical City
Dacia Publishing House · Cluj-Napoca, Romania
Bucovina Cultural Foundation Award, 2003.
07
2003
Essays
The Sacred Empire. Monasteries and Churches in Northern Moldavia
Paralela 45 Publishing House · Pitești, Romania
08
2010
Novel
Esto’s Lover
Curtea Veche Publishing House · Bucharest, Romania
09
2011
Poetry · Opera Omnia
Improvisations on Armonic Key
Tipo Moldova Publishing House · Iași, Romania
10
2012
Essays · Opera Omnia
The Big Game
Tipo Moldova Publishing House · Iași, Romania
11
2019
Novel
The Librarian of Hell
Cartea Românească Educațional · Iași, Romania
Book of the Year 2019, awarded in November 2020 by the Romanian Writers’ Union—Bacău Association and the Vrancea Literară International Festival.
12
2021
Selected poems
Wall and Neutrino. The Poet in New York
Červená Barva Press · USA
Foreword by Manrico Murzi and back-cover text by Andrew Singer.
13
2021
Poetry · Romanian/English
Orașele lui Giorgio de Chirico / The Cities of Giorgio de Chirico
Cyberwit Press · India
Back-cover text by Norman Lock. Reviewed by Andrew Singer in World Literature Today, September 2021.
14
2022
Poetry
The Lives of the Painters
Eikon Publishing House · Bucharest, Romania
Foreword by Ovidiu Pecican and afterword by Toti O’Brien. “Wassily Kandinsky” appeared in World Literature Today in May 2022. Poetry Prize of the Romanian Writers’ Union—Bacău Association, 2023.
15
2022
Novel
Iubirea lui Sabato
Eikon Publishing House · Bucharest, Romania
Revised edition of Esto’s Lover, with an afterword by Felix Nicolau.
16
2023
Poetry · French edition
Les Vies des Peintres
L’Harmattan · Paris, France
French version by the author, with a foreword by Elena-Brândușa Steiciuc.
17
2023
Novel · Spanish edition
El Amor de Sabato
Verbum Publishing House · Madrid, Spain
Spanish version by Dana Mihaela Giurcă, with a back-cover text by Norman Manea.
18
2024
Novel
City of Sleepwalkers
Eikon Publishing House · Bucharest, Romania
19
2024
Novel · French edition
La ville des somnambules
Le Lys Bleu · Paris, France
French version of City of Sleepwalkers by the author.
20
2025
Articles and art reviews
Beyond Words and Forms
[PUBLISHER TO BE FILLED]
Foreword by Marina Roman and afterword by Helen Gorrill.
21
2026
Poetry · English/Bengali
The Lives of Painters / Chitrajapan
Red River Press · India
Translated by Debasish Lahiri.
22
2026
Poetry · Romanian/English
The Archetypal World
Eikon Publishing House · Bucharest, Romania
Foreword by Iulian Boldea.
23
2026
Novel
The School of Gangsters
Iuni Smart Press · Vicovu de Jos, Romania
24
2026
Novel · English edition
City of Sleepwalkers
Cyberwit Press · India