Vizma Belševica was a poet. Her books and the late recognition of them can be told as chapters: work written under constraint, and a name that grew after. She died in 2005. The poems are the story.
Gând
A sample thought. A friend would say how the ordinary days were the ones that stayed.
Thomas
Gând
A sample thought. Someone who was taught, or helped, would leave a few lines here.
Nora
Poveste
Sunday at the table
This is a sample story. A son would write about Sunday, the extra chair, and the way Vizma Belševica kept a place for whoever arrived.
Jon
Lumânare
For the songs, and for Sunday.
Elena
Lumânare
A sample candle, lit for one day.
Sofia
Videoclipuri
The song from the old radio
A sample film for Vizma Belševica. The family would put here a song or a piece of footage they still play.
Muzică
The piece from the kitchen
The family
Dar
Lumânare
A sample gift of light.
Helen
Dar
Carte
A sample card for Vizma Belševica.
Mark
Dar
Floare
A sample flower, left on the page.
Iris
Cronologie
Born
Vizma Belševica was born in 1931.
Cronologie
A poet in a free decade
In the years around independence her work was read again in public, without the earlier bans.
Cronologie
Died
She died in 2005.
Întâlnire
A reading at home
A sample gathering for Vizma Belševica. The family would write the time, the place, and who is welcome.
The family
1931
1990
2005