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that established him as a prominent literary figure. His popularity grew rapidly, and in 1971 he joined the International Writing Program at the University of Iowa. He often spoke ironically about his own work and described feeling alienated by language. Several of his poems were censored under the Nicolae Ceausescu regime and were published only after the 1989 Revolution. Sorescu's play, Iona, was published in 1968 and was considered a 'masterpiece.' He got sick with cirrhosis and hepatitis,

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