DRAGAN DRAGOJLOVIĆ graduated and obtained a masters degree in Economics at Belgrade University. He has published 18 books in the Serbian language, and 13 books in foreign languages, including 4 in English, and has won several literary awards. He is currently the Director of the Ivo Andric Foundation in Belgrade.
"These indelible lyric poems of extremity bear the spiritual and
cognitive shattering of loss--the loss that is war, that is death,
the loss of what is beloved and love itself, hope, identity,
community, promise, homeland, physical rudiments of existence--in
shell flash visions where the dead are looking upon the living in
disbelief that they have ever existed, where the stars come down to
the trenches at night and cannot labor their way back into the
heavens in the morning. What is and what is not, what happened and
what will, fall into and out of each other like political
boundaries whiplashing across maps. Among the things this work has
to teach Americans is that the point of even the lyric poem is not
to provide a stage for the unique sensibility of the poet but to
allow us to know the trauma of which we are in fact the agentts,
the 'timeless and universal' dispensation of might, 'where spring,
too, had hidden away / fearing to set off / across meadows and
woods, / to the realm of death.'" --Linda McCarriston, author of
Little River
"To convey the struggle to remain human in the midst of atrocious
violence requires a stoic honesty about the powerful pull of hatred
and despair; in these poems we feel that pull, but we also come to
inhabit the poet's refusal to capitulate, his adamantly lyrical
commitment to the individual human soul. These poems are as welcome
and heart-breaking as birdsong between bombardments. A reader can
only be grateful." --Richard Hoffman, author of Gold Star Road
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