PORTRAITS OF TIME
(FOMITE PRESS, 2021) 

"Barefoot we waded out into the deep until the current took us downstream. On the way we pulled stars from the river and let them fall through our fingers back into the sky. It grew late and the houses on the shore went out one by one, claimed by the silence."

A new collection of prose poetry with original B&W photography. 

Made In the Image of Stones
(BrickHouse Books, 2014) 

In Made in the Image of Stones the past is not something you can learn about. It is the burden of inheritance, of a consciousness that we stand upon stones, that our foundations are shaky but they are all we have, that the image we have of ourselves is carved in the likeness of others. For more than eighty pages Guruianu carries the weight of this burden through poems where the surreal meets the painfully real, the strikingly vivid, a kinship that reveals the imperfect nature of memory as well as the limitations of individual consciousness and cultural identity. The signs are everywhere and they are chiseled in marble and molded in bronze. But we are also stubborn, the lap of history is not enough to hold us. Ultimately, while the poems bow to lineage and roots in our acceptance and humility, there is a refusal, a stubborn hope that the future isn’t yet written in stone.

Portrait Without a Mouth 
​(BrickHouse Books, 2014) 

Throughout the poems that make up Portrait Without a Mouth, a follow up to Guruianu's Made in the Image of Stones, the Angel of History finally turns his head towards the present and lifts his eyes to the future. He sees the same ancient stones dotting the fields, the same ruins dusted off and resurrected only to be toppled again. Of those he meets he asks a single question: Where does history end, and where do we begin? Silence, a shrug of the shoulders. At the end of the day he shakes his head and mutters underneath his breath. Maybe a prayer. Language rearranged into a different version of tomorrow.

​Postmodern Dogma
​(Sunbury Press, 2012) 

A brilliant and fierce observer, with powerful music of desire and sorrow.
—Paul Hamill, former Poet Laureate of Tompkins County, NY

The Museum of Brief Sentiments, Vol. 1 & 2 
(Kattywompus Press, 2013) $16


This is a limited edition double volume collection, hand numbered and signed (100 copies). Each set also includes an original signed and numbered photograph by the artist Teknari (www.teknari.com). The photographs were taken between autumn 2011 and spring 2013, in the cities of Paris, Barcelona, Berlin, St. Petersburg,  Bucharest, New York, and Binghamton. They were shot predominantly using handmade distressed film with the purpose of achieving chance aesthetic fusion with the subject.

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​Anamnesis
(Finishing Line Press, 2010) ​

So much American poetry is lost in itself these days. What of the lost others? How ironic entering the second decade of the twenty-first century that it is rare to find an American poet who tackles the big subjects of nations and political change and the people that the turbulence of geo politics affects on the street level; perhaps it takes a Romanian expatriate such as Andrei Guruianu to dare to write against the corrupt and the dead, and to do so without polemic but with irony, wit, and images. Taking as his title the idea of remembrance, Guruianu gathers for us the smallest shards of memory: gypsy sellers whose vegetables have been confiscated by cops, ghost crosses, ten-year-old junkies sucking bronze paint, a labyrinth of petals, a chamber full of blanks. Each shard tells us Andrei is that rare poet of history whose work transcends time and place to speak in the lyric, so necessary, so needed, “now that you’ve discovered/ the doors to your own cell were locked before you ever entered.”
--Sean Thomas Dougherty, author of Sasha Sings the Laundry on the Line

​ and nothing was sacred anymore 
(March Street Press, 2009)

Andrei Guruianu’s poetry explores the often tentative line between displacement and the possibilities of living in the lyrical moment. Like Williams, he is a poet of contact. Moments become place and place becomes the contingency of exile, of being “set forth” into the world to seek one’s fortune. And Nothing Was Sacred Anymore explores the paradox of being grounded in a history that has no ground on which to stand.      
—Joe Weil, author of Painting the Christmas Trees and The Plumber’s Apprentice

​Front Porch World View 
(Main Street Rag, 2009)

Front Porch World View is a collection of vignettes in a world that really doesn’t much allow for the poetry of people sitting, talking, laughing and playing music on front porches anymore.  Guruianu’s poetry is one long blues song, 21st century America currently crashing all around us. The power of Front Porch View resides in the beauty and dignity the poet distills from his and others’ lives through his heart-shaking language.  A book for our times.
—Susan Deer Cloud, author of The Last Ceremony
                                              
Dark exuberance? Exuberant darkness? Both phrases describe the power of Andrei Guruianu’s poems in this vivid autobiographical collection. A sense of flight and settling, coming and going, leaving and staying moves through them as he observes and interprets the people and places of his life with the quick intelligence of a wild bird intent on survival, or a traveler who knows home is a haven as long as the door doesn’t shut too tight.
—Katharyn Howd Machan, former poet  laureate of Tompkins County 

​How We Are Now
(Split Oak Press, 2009) 

Poetry by Andrei Guruianu with Photography by Anthony Brunelli

How We Are Now blends poetry and black and white photography to create a visual and literary representation of Binghamton, New York. The images and poems focus primarily on infrastructure (the old as well as the new), residences, historical sites, landscapes, and scenery. We hope that this poetry and photography exchange will serve as a unique artistic statement and a tool for chronicling a particular area in time, simply one among many others. ​

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