Poet's Way of Knowing Photo

Posted by Holly Pettit Apr 21, 2006

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The photo is a detail from a statue in the Citadel park of Suceava, Romania. It's the head of Stephen the Great's horse, as its rider was moving out to defend the city from Moorish attack. The Princely Citadel, around which the park stands, is actually in ruins now, just as the Ottoman army left it.

Here's a map of Suceava.

The Romanians we talked to on my "Visiting Poet" trip said they feel that Western Europe has forgotten it was they who stopped the Moslem armies from overtaking the rest of the continent, and that they were left with destruction and suffering for their trouble.

Here's the wikipedia article on

Stephen the Great.