Summary
Ervin Jahić: Why Venice is sinking
Bosniak poetry from 1990 to our days
Ervin Jahić was born in Rijeka in 1970. He writes poetry, criticism, essays and phenomenological texts. He wrote five books of poems: "About an Andalusian dog" (1994), "Biography and a car" (2001), "Book of materials, a weekend manual of the utopia of bodies for pets" - with Predrag Todorović (2001), "Deserts of neon" (2005) and "Crystals of Afghanistan" (2007). In addition, he is the author of three critical and editorial books: "If We Crash into a Cloud, It Won't Hurt (Croatian Poetry 1989 - 2009) (2009), "U nebo i u niks" (Anthology of Croatian Poetry 1989 - 2009) (2009) and "Open House" - a selection and afterword of selected poems by Ivan Kordić (2012). His poems have been translated into English, German, Italian, French, Russian, Turkish, Persian, Bulgarian, Romanian, Hungarian and Slovenian. He is the editor-in-chief of the magazine "Poezija", co-editor of the Library "Poezija" and director of the festival "Verse in the Region" of the Croatian Society of Writers. He is a member of the Croatian Society of Writers and the Croatian P.E.N. center. His latest book entitled "Why is Venice sinking - Bosniak poetry from 1990 to our days" was published in 2012 by the Cultural Society of Bosnians in Croatia "Revival" from Zagreb. This impressive edition offers a selection of 76 poets from BiH, Croatia, Serbia, Macedonia, Europe and the world. Authors are represented with one to fourteen songs. With an instructive preface and a selection of poems, the author contextualizes the dominant and marginal poetic identities of Bosniak poetry in the last two decades. It is an anthology that simultaneously documents the creativity, poetics and achievements of as many as seven different generations of Bosniak poets in the last twenty years. At the same time, this is the first overview of Bosniak poetry published in Croatia so far, which was conceived in this way.
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