Together with the bookstore La două bufnițe, we invite you on July 16th, 2024, at 18:00, to the Art Encounters Foundation (Timișoara, Take Ionescu bd., 46C, Casa ISHO). Here, the exhibition space will be transformed into a veritable stage where literature and visual art will merge in a unique performative reading, in relation to the exhibition Marius Bercea: This Side of Paradise.
As a part of a series of interdisciplinary events, this event offers a personal and immersive journey into the poetic world of Andrew Davidson-Novosivschei, inspired by his latest volume, lazy heart, a series of emotionally verses about the poet’s artistic journey from the American coasts to the lands of Romania, exploring the cultural encounters and vibrant landscapes that have shaped his vision and inspiration.
The performative reading will be conducted by the author himself, Andrew Davidson-Novosivschei.
Author biography
Andrew Davidson-Novosivschei (b. 1987) is a teacher, poet, and translator from Arizona, based in Bucharest since 2015. He has written and published poetry in English and Romanian. Andrew’s poem “the taste of freedom” was nominated for the 2021 Pushcart Prize in the United States. He exhibited poems and drawings in the 2022 solo show “pop-up book” at Diptych Art Space in Bucharest. Andrew translates and publishes prose and poetry in Romanian and English. His poetry volume inimă leneșă [lazy heart] was awarded the Radu Demetriades Prize for Debut in Poetry and published at Dezarticulat Books publishing house the same year.
About the poetry volume
“lazy heart is a book written in Romanian by a young American poet and translator, Andrew Davidson-Novosivschei. […] A most unusual debut. A description of the volume in a few words? Minimalism, self-deprocation, candor, paradox, the special expressivity of using a foreign language, paired with a perception of reality on the margins. Moments of humor, absurdity, perplexity, earnestness. Every series of text is a kind of box by Joseph Cornell (the famous American artist, surrealist, pioneer of collage, montage, assemblage) where elements of reality are called together and juxtaposed to alienating effect. Sequences of poems like boxes “with money” / “with many children” / “with happiness” / “with a fountain” / “with centimeters” / “with a drawer” / “with birds” / “with taylor swift” / “with cristiano ronaldo” / “with a bear” / “with two knives”, etc. Poetry about poetry (like Bogdan Ghiu writes, but Andrew Davidson-Novosivschei does it so differently). Flashes of the avantgard, of Tristan Tzara, of the early writing of Gellu Naum (whom Andrew also translated into English). Photograms, pen portraits, snapshots. Maximum meaning with minimum words. A suprising volume, indeed.”
– Simona Popescu, about lazy heart