Nestorov pehar
As one of the rare poets of today who has avoided the trap of so-called 'realistic' or 'narrative' poetry, Asmir Kujović has offered a kind of aesthetic guide from the anxiety of the 20th century in all his poetic works to date.
Responding to the multiple challenges that the paradigm of modern civilization, with its Scientological picture of the world and deterministic picture of man, has posed to the lyrical form. Every time Asmir Kujović wrote a verse, the metaphysical and everyday horizons of existence met, and what for a modern man is just another average day on planet Earth, in this poetry is the space of theophany, the scene of sacred events. In this sense, we are talking about a poet who, without traditionalist anachronisms, has overcome the limitations of modern poetry, and by all accounts has also offered a horizon in which the contours of the future of poetry as such can be discerned.'' Matija Bošnjak ''Kujović's collection Nestor's Cup is a kind of novelty and refreshment in the literary-historical and poetic sense in our literature. It was not created as a reflection of a historical moment, but as a true return to the idea of aesthetic utopia and 'pure poetry'. It largely breaks with the dominant poetics of testimony and (anti)war writing, as well as with postmodern dystopias.
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