Her first book, Ochiul strainului (The Eye of the Stranger), which scooped the Romanian Writers’ Union’s Award (at Dobrogea Branch) in 1996, placed the reader in front of a type of poetry that had found its own structure: the poem as a global metaphor that did not get fascinated by the more spectacular, the more superficial “poetic imagery” – either embracing it with the positive or negative sign, as poetic or antipoetic “norms” – which almost any young poet would dream of.