Summary
Željka Horvat Čeč: Strict silence
Zeljka Horvat Čeč's poetry collection "Strict silence" is not so calm in its microworld, but it is in the macroworld. Because circular, as one of its motifs, is an island. The three thematic clusters, love, island and disease, intertwine and rely on each other, and like a composition in that cycle, the collection changes its leader in cycles, so that in the end, it is not difficult to guess, everything would come to more or less the same. And life is what it is in the meantime, take a bike ride around the building / that's what my life sounds like. The poetry of Željka Horvat Čeč sees love and illness, let's add consumerism, as everyday life. The author sticks to an ordinary lexicon, far from any astonishment, which does not prevent her from composing verses that will surprise and penetrate, connect at a distance, as in the song about the grandmother's dying: she said before her last laugh parked on the bed / above which a triangle is swaying, where the triangle is clearly associated with the failure of the machine, that is, of beings. Existential uncertainty is one of the attributes of this poetic subject, because love as a stronghold generally has a shelf life, while the presence of illness in a person only grows, until it outgrows him. However, we are in an earlier phase, the one that draws songs out of insecurity.
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