Abstract
This article examines the poetry of six Bessarabian poets from the seventies class. The focus is on reinterpreting dimensions of paradigm shift, from textualism to tragism. Valeria Grosu, Leo Butnaru, Arcadie Suceveanu, Eugen Cioclea, Vsevolod Ciornei, Andrei Ţurcanu are treated as precursors of the eighty/ ninety poetry.