Summary
Alen Brlek: Halal zumra
Alen Brlek's poetry books published so far - in which he built a recognizable, at the same time closed and completely open poetic world in which less is more, and language is a slippery field of reduction, play and experiment - represented body, spirit and mind in order, forming an established, conceptually connected trilogy along the way. The continuities and differences of Halal zumra are beautifully reflected already in its title. Again, from the beginning, there is the familiar strangeness, the code, the secret. However, its production logic is different: it is not a question of a crack in the language from which an excess of meaning grows, but of a kind of ready‑made, the creation of something new from the existing references of global and local everyday life.
The verses are still few, they are stingy, dense. At the same time, they open up to the reader, offer keys, seek refuge in pop culture. They deal with the place of insecurity, mistrust in the outcome of one's own struggles, the impossibility to fully say, to understand. Hence the "braille" on the left sides; its intangible and silent, barren imprint. Business card from the hidden.
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