Carmen Bugan is the author of the collection of poems, Crossing the Carpathians, the memoir Burying the Typewriter: Childhood Under the Eye of the Secret Police, and the monograph Seamus Heaney and East European Poetry in Translation: Poetics of Exile. The House of Straw is her second collection.

“[…] a word-smithy that is now owned by an incorruptible woman of letters. Her words are in open view and in plain hearing for the eyes and ears of people who value every single tongue but not the forked one.” —Christopher Ricks, Dead Ground 2018-1918 “I can certainly attest […] now, after being in Bugan’s world of `frail syllables’, that such an equilibrium between history and art is not only possible, but is often the only way to assuage pain, to release the caged birds, to free oneself from the shackles of grief.” —Simon Gatev, Dundee University Review of the Arts ...