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Šimić Antun Branko: Preobraženja - izabrane pesme

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Preobraženja - izabrane pesme

Šimić Antun Branko

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Antun Branko Šimić: Transformations - selected poems

In the longing for health, for physical power, in the range of psychic strength and physical weakness, a song of physicality was born, a song to the body, which makes up everything, outside of which there is no escape; a song to the corpse, the corpse, the flesh, the blood, the skin, the flesh, the murmur in the veins, the fires in the veins; a song to the body, which carries life and gives complete death. In that hymn to the body, in that wailing over the corpse, a cry, a scream, a prayer to God and final resignation, total doubt, emptiness, reconciliation are born from it and in it. In that bodily crucifixion, he wrote the most profound poems about women in our literature.
(Ivan Goran Kovačić)

Although he published only one collection of poems during his lifetime (Transformations, 1920), A. B. Šimić managed to sublimate the hopes and frictions of the entire poetic experience of the era with his meteoric appearance and intense internal combustion in the space between bound and free verse. From youthful restlessness and brokenness, colored by Matos's impressionism, through spiritual anxiety and existential loneliness, tinted with the melancholy of German expressionism, to looking down from astral heights on the body of the poor and petty-bourgeois hypocrisy - Šimić's lyrics of extreme subjectivism are a mirror of man's impotence before the key questions of life and the universe.

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