Summary
Vasko Popa: Rez
The simultaneous publication of thematically different collections of poetry (Wolf Salt, Kuća posred puta and Zivo meso) in 1975, according to some literary historians, indicates Popa's intention to present three equal components of the poet's personality in the process of repersonalizing his own poetry: mythical, collective-political and personal.
The collection Cut from 1981 legitimizes that poetic cut in the direction of personal experience and new sociality, which represents the foundation around which the mentioned vertical collective of myths and the horizontal collective of the political community gather. These 37 songs were composed in the period from 1970 to 1980, and the two-part composition from Živo mesa - with the central song as the backbone of the collection - spilled over into this collection. The poems in Rez have something of the experience of prose texts, something deliberately narrative in them, so it should not be surprising that they are often directed towards the final point. With the tonality of modernized spoken language, with occasional illustrations and addressed dedications, these poems talk about the problems of city life, bringing, as a rule, only its dark sides, and their social engagement is deeply immersed in everyday life: from a poplar that becomes a victim of prosperous traffic in a big city to Yugoslav workers abroad.
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