Summary
Tatjana Gromača: Ivan the Homeless and his poems
Planet Library
Tatjana Gromača appeared on the Croatian literary scene at the turn of the millennium with her poetic debut Something is wrong? and opened the way for a new generation of real-life poets whose strong influence in Croatian and regional literature is still our legacy today. In the meantime, she unobtrusively inserted poetry into the 'between ranks' of prose genres and journalistic reports, bound nine books, received several important literary awards and published the American edition of the novel Divine Children. And now, twenty-three years later, as is the case with great, unobtrusive poets, Gromača returns to poetic writing (from which she actually never left) without fanfare, modestly, yet powerfully and recognizable, in everyday language and directly, with the collection Ivan Bezdomnik and his poems and reminds us that in fact everything is fine even if the "homeless poets" now have their stone soup, empty of poverty, bitter of humiliation,
There must be something good in all this
I feel as if we have just arrived on Earth
With the help of fragile, fickle threads that weave them through you
This language of secret brotherhood, poetry.
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