Summary
Sonja Manojlović: Jokes and admonitions
Continuous walking, sometimes even running, the hustle and bustle of not only the words but also the world that these words cling to as points that try to calm and capture it, at least for a moment - that should be the starting point when we talk about Sonja Manojlović's new book of poetry. This time, her refined observational eye caught up with the speed and acceleration of the world, and the songs before us are warm dialogues with random passers-by, those who are observed, those who pass by us. With the book Jokes and Warnings, Sonja has written a personal city, a personal observation point from which, with tenderness and understanding towards the life that unfolds in everyday life, she looks at the hands that approach and leave, constantly. These hands are often women's, their loud silences, their struggles to break out of the mold of the world that tries to digest and adapt them. Sonja Manojlović's poetic voice is a precise blade of language that carefully dissects reality. these are the poems that will stay with us for a long time, reminding us that poetry is, as Manojlović writes, adding oneself to everyone, confirming once again this poetess as one of the most important voices of our contemporary literature.
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