Summary
Monika Herceg: Closed season
In Croatian, lovostaj means "closed season" - the time when hunting is prohibited. Animals that people hunt are allowed to relax during this time of year, they don't have to live in fear of being shot. The poems collected in this award-winning collection by Monika Herceg combine physics with politics to create righteously angry and alarmingly memorable songs that explore new ways of expressing the horrors that women around the world have faced and continue to face in a painfully patriarchal world. "The poetry of Monika Herceg is like a wound through which the world shines - painful, true, filled with memory and anger, but also with hope for new stories. Her poems, arising from the experience of war, exile and violence, transcend the boundaries of time and geography to stand up for those who never had a voice. This is poetry that is not afraid to speak about responsibility - for Europe, for women, for those excluded by systems and ideologies. Herceg writes about a history that no longer belongs winners and about the beauty that cannot fit into the frames we knew before." - Olga Tokarczuk, winner of the Nobel Prize.
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