Petre Stoica

Born in Peciu Nou, Timiș County, in the Banat region, his parents were Adam Stoica and his wife Maria (née Bertan).

[3] While a student, he became friends with Modest Morariu and met Dimitrie Stelaru and Mircea Ivănescu; shortly after graduating, he drew notice from Paul Georgescu and Anatol E. Baconsky.

In 1957, he took part in the formation of a group that included young writers passionate about literature, several of whom would achieve notoriety: aside from Morariu and Ivănescu, Nichita Stănescu, Matei Călinescu, and Cezar Baltag were also present in this collective.

[2] Stoica then left the capital city and settled in Jimbolia, where the mayor offered him a house that had been nationalized under communism but not reclaimed by the previous owners.

Through the books Pietre kilometrice (1963), Miracole (1966), Arheologie blândă (1968) and Melancolii inocente (1969), Stoica established himself as an original poet whose lyricism, according to critic Mihail Petroveanu, draws upon "a studied, naive view of daily life, called to reveal unsuspected miracles, and upon a sentimental pathos concealed beneath a smile complicit in forgotten destinies, creatures and objects eaten by 'the golden worm of time.

In reality, through an ingenious technique of decoupling and through brief commentaries made in good taste, the poet compels routine existence to reveal its lyrical resources.

"[2] Notably, during the three decades he published under communism, he refused to join in the regime's triumphalist rhetoric about itself, entering a voluntary aesthetic exile and confining his verses to insignificant or obsolete matters.