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The poetic manuscript Behind the Heart, the City of Blackberries is a geographical and symbolic journey through urban and rural spaces, a journey through which new possibilities of identity and consciousness, love and female freedom are sought. The collection contains three connected cycles, Kazaljke za crvenu, Dat ću ti svoje oči and Boja rubova i dugog putavanja kuća, which announce or round off lyrical lines in which boundaries are crossed, invisible membranes are broken, followed by silent, subtle changes in being. The lyrical heroine constantly questions her place in the world, while also questioning the significance of poetry itself. For example, in the poignant poem Prema zvijezdama, which depicts one of the tragic destinies of the village, she poses the fateful question of whether to go collect wood at the neighbor's, or write a poem. The problem of writing is therefore woven into the question of identity, which in this poetic manuscript is sought precisely on the road, in movement, getting to know different locations and realizing one's own limitations and shortcomings of freedom. It is precisely in the questions and unusual points that one finds one's own voice, for example, when the lyrical protagonist asks: Can clocks be loved?, identifying her own face with the clock mechanism, with the one that constantly records and points to the porosity of human destinies. In the observation and discernment of various external and internal landscapes, colors become places of meaningful strongholds and warnings, such as the lights of city traffic lights or the gold color from Klimt's paintings. The colors and sounds of the city and nature, as well as the silence of solitude and contemplation, are thus the points from which the numerous nuances of sensitivity of this poetry spring. The most important insights come from Zen-like, apersonal reflections, in which one finds sameness in diversity, simultaneity in multitemporality. Behind the Heart, Blackberry City is a poetic manuscript that, interweaving the colors and lines of different localities, human traces and the laws of nature, testifies to the strange connection, but also the relativity, of everything that surrounds us.