"His "ExiL" poems, some of which were first published in the West during the 1940s, have drawn comparisons with the imagery of original modern artists such as Joan Miró and Paul Klee.The title is a wordplay on "exil" (the Romanian-language word for "exile") and "el" ("him"), and the lyrics are addressed to a Jewish friend who had been deported during the Ion Antonescu dictatorship ("see Holocaust in Romania").