Summary
Predrag Lucić: The Moon above Split
Madmen
They are the light of the world
We look
And they see
We laugh
They are laughter
Our craziness
Opens the door
From madhouse
Which we call
The world.
It is difficult to find better words for the collection of poems "The Moon above Split" by Predrag Lucić. It should only be emphasized that the word lunatics should not be understood harshly or cruelly, but rather as lunatics, and even more so as the sick (each of us has a passport to that world), the Others, the marginalized, the misunderstood... Because the characters in this collection are not lunatics at all, nor mere lunatics, but also trainers of courage and independence - and there is one J.P. Kamov - a little bit all of us, and above all the city of Split, who make up, you guessed it - its inhabitants, not walls.
Predrag Lucić wrote a collection of documents, stories, myths and memories about the world and the age, about Split and the world, about the humiliated and the injured, about the cruel majority and the proud minority, about courage, about mouths full of laughter and when there is little to laugh at. How liberating and at the same time scrupulously Lucić writes related verses, this space cannot be (p)described, but exclusively recommended, but only to those who are eager to peek out of Iz ludnice / Koju zovemo / Svijet.
Predrag Lucić, Croatian journalist and writer (Split, 12.2.1964 - 10.1.2018). Studied at the Faculty of Dramatic Arts in Belgrade. From 1985 he was a contributor to Feral, a satirical sub-sheet of Nedjeljna Dalmacija (since 1990 Slobodna Dalmacija), in 1993 he was one of the founders of the independent Feral Tribune, where he was the editor until the paper was closed in 2008. He started and edited the library of that weekly.
He published the book Greatest Shits - Anthology of Contemporary Croatian Stupidity (co-authored with Boris Dežulović, 1998), satirical collections Haiku haiku jebem ti maiku (2003), Lovers from Verona (2007), Sun Tzu na prozorčić (2009), Bezgaća historical reality (I–II, 2010), The Moon above Split (2012), Gusle u magli (2013), Step by step - Stepinac (2016).
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