Summary
Željka Horvat Čeč: We must become concrete
Željka Horvat Čeč successfully uses different poetic registers in order to find the right voice with which to shape the traumas of growing up, illness, love, abuse... which she tries to analyze and understand in the book We must become concrete. Or in order to oppose primitivism and violence, to denounce stupidity, to exceed conventions... The narrator, if you can call it a poetic voice in the first person, shapes a world on the opposite pole of which stands another whom she fears and tries to approach. This approach to another is often accompanied by fear and doubt, and sex, as one of the strategies for this approach, along with love of course, is most often a moment of venting, freedom, erasing boundaries.
And in longer narrative sections, and in those in which the connections between the signifier and the signified are much looser, Željka Horvat Čeč shows enviable writing skill, but also courage, because indeed, despite the complete sexualization of society, it is still rare today that one poet spoke so concretely, and far from any banality, about women and men in an intimate and social clinch.
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