Summary
Marko Pogačar: Because we are many
Contemporary Croatian poetry in its own words
Of all the types of obsession, one of the noblest is undoubtedly that of poetry. Her willing prisoner is Marko Pogačar, among others. After the books of his own verses, he also testifies to the mentioned obsession as a reader - through conversations with poets and the selection of their texts. The book "Jer mi smo mnoki" offers and invites dialogue about the state, poetics and trends in recent poetry.
Conversations with twenty younger poets reveal what and how they think about poetry, and the handy reader illustrates their sentences verbatim, confirms or disputes them, points to permanent places, fictional refuges and mystifications in today's lyrical landscape. Marko Pogačar rules the situation from the beginning to the end of the book - his insight is thorough, his comments are lucid, and his questions are serious to the extent that the interlocutors, one after the other, reveal their creative strategies. o pjesnicima i njima pripadajućim praksama, koje se na različite načine dodiruju i razdvajaju, razilaze, izravno ili posredno prihvaćaju ili isključuju. It's no secret that Croatian poetry, biting its own tail and questioning the ever-better past, is obsessed with the desire to write all the adventure of its own (unique) poetic voice into the game of signs and meanings. The one who is always on the way out, who resists from safe ground and reaches the void, into nothingness... But it is precisely in that effort, in that leap, in that fragment and transience, that his drama, his intrigue and extension.
Poet and essayist Marko Pogačar shares with his companions, in an undefined space of different poetics, interests, signs and themes, his own obsession with what we often know what is not, and less often what is. It is no exaggeration to say that Croatian poets in speech, dialogue, in a kind of consideration of their own work are ready and equipped to talk about what their poetry, what their poetry in this, paradoxically, scarce and poor time is trying to reach and what it wants to reach! Mićanović
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