Summary
Danijel Dragojević: Late summer
Late summer is, one could say, the distillate of summer - the point where it is contained in its entirety, only calmer, milder, more peaceful. In this sense, Dragojević's Late Summer is a book that, in its lateness, preserves the essence of an engagement with the world and poetry. In it are the poet's themes and his light, his cities and his island, his Mediterranean, the turtle from the beginning and other regions where he led us.
In it, finally, there is a grain of darkness. As a counterweight and as a seed, Dragojević inscribes it in the airiness and ether of a summer day (A little darkness / in a bud / A little darkness. / Not much. / A little. / So much / that it blooms). Of all Dragojević's books, this one is perhaps the most impossible, made of that warm, elusive and volatile, invisible, yet precious – from the core of late summer. The moment when summer (still) lasts and is eternal.
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