Summary
In her poems, Emina Kovačević fights against war and trauma with a special kind of original poetic humor. Branko Ćopić is not the poet's role model by chance, because she also writes about growing up during the war in a warm, poor and patriarchal world, from the point of view of a timid, overbearing (indigo!) child whose lucidity and mocking humor are often his only allies. Strangely devoid of bitterness and despair, Emina Kovačević's songs captivate with their fascinating lightness. Readable, memorable, witty and entertaining, Poems from the UNICEF volumebuild an intriguing and dislocated, yet strangely familiar poetic world.
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