Reading this collection by Flavia Cosma provokes a sense of bewilderment, an effect of disorientation, a perception of manque-à-être, of absolute lack, of emptiness, which finds an inaccessible substance/non-substance in a hallucinated representation.
In the background, the tragedy of a terminated relationship, of a dialogue, at times desperate, between people who seem to speak different languages within a disordered, laid, elusive reality. The rational human side proves incapable of dominating the tzunami of feelings that oppose each other within the poetic self and cause a suffering that only art is able to record in all its violence.
La lecture de ce recueil de Flavia Cosma provoque un sentiment de désarroi, un effet d'aliénation, une perception de manque-à-être, de manque absolu, de vide, qui trouve dans une représentation hallucinée une substance/non-substance inaccessible.
En arrière-plan, la tragédie d'une relation terminée, d'un dialogue parfois désespéré entre des personnes qui semblent parler différentes langues au sein d'une réalité désordonnée, laide, insaisissable. Le côté rationnel humain se montre incapable de dominer le tzunami des sentiments qui s'opposent à l'intérieur du moi poétique et qui provoquent une souffrance que seul l'art est capable d'enregistrer dans toute sa violence.

Flavia Cosma is a Canadian poet, author and translator of Romanian origin. She also has a master's degree in electrical engineering and studied theatre in Romania. Her work as an independent producer of documentaries for television, director and screenwriter has brought her major awards. She has published more than fifty books of poetry, novels, travel memoirs and children's literature in different languages and places around the world. The poetry volume Leaves of a Diary was accepted at the University of Toronto in the EJ Pratt Canadian Literature Programme as teaching material for the 2007-2008 academic year. The volume of poetry Thus Spoke the Sea was accepted at Towson University, Baltimore, Maryland, USA (Professor Alan Britt), as teaching material for the 2014 academic year. The volume of poetry The Latin Quarter was accepted at Towson University, Baltimore, Maryland, USA (Professor Alan Britt), as teaching material for the 2017 academic year. His creative work has been honoured with several awards.
She received the Title of Excellence for her outstanding contribution to the promotion and enrichment of Romanian culture in the European region and worldwide, awarded by the International Festival ‘Lucian Blaga’, XXIX edition, Sebeş-Alba, Romania, 2009.
was decorated with the Gold Medal and elected Honorary Member of the Peruvian House of Poets for her poetry and her work in international cultural promotion, Lima, Peru, 2010. She received the Gold Medal of the Romanian Associations of Quebec in Canada, on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the establishment of Romania.
She received the Colleen Thibaudeau 2023 prize for her outstanding contribution to poetry in Canada, a prize awarded by the League of Canadian Poets for her role as director of the International Biennial Festival of Writers and Artists in Val-GrandDavid, Québec, Canada. She received the Nobili Causa Doctorate of the Latin American Cultural Movement Project in 2024.
Flavia Cosma is a member of the League of Canadian Poets, UNEQ, Québec, the British Association of Comparative Literature, the Union of Writers of Romania, etc. She is director of the Val David International Writers‘ and Artists’ Residence, Québec, Canada and the Val-David International Writers‘ and Artists’ Festival.