Summary
Over the open graves, Darko Cvijetić dissolves the destinies of people, those buried and those who bury. The way he does this is unparalleled in all our literature. Without any doubt, he is the most important poet of that unburied and unburyable world. Boris Dežulović sang about the concentration camp - from the perspective of a criminal - and Cvijetić sings about those who did not survive. Both poets took care to free themselves and their kind from the doom of self-pity. That is why both of them are so incomparable to the rest of the poetic genre, and belong to the war poetry anthology of only two names. Every day is the anniversary of the crime. And every day is the Day of the Dead. It is so, and so it will be, if we do not deserve redemption before ourselves. Neither in front of God, nor in front of other people, and even less other nations. Just in front of you. Without it, life over the mass graves will not continue. Darko Cvijetić's poetry in hundreds of variations and incantations calls for the continuation of human life.
- Miljenko Jergović
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