Summary
Davor Ivankovac: Collected Poems
Collected Poems of Davor Ivankovac is a collection of poems that consists of five cycles ironically named like the book itself. While the titles of the cycles are repeated, so are, through variations of phantasmagorical images, the motifs of destruction, destruction and indifference. It is, of course, about the world of late capitalism — social, economic and ecological destruction and identity questioning — a world from which the subject tries to escape, only to end up in such a world again. Therefore, this departure is at the same time a departure from oneself and a certain coming to oneself — a cyclical journey in which the subject dissipates and gathers itself. Deeply melancholic and ironic, this poetry is the poetry of an edge beyond which nothing seems to remain, except perhaps anger, which suddenly erupts when everything is over. Or maybe it's just starting?
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