In a haiku poem, we come across transpositions and inversions of common, everyday expressions. The pearls of that poetry are not only sparks in the darkness of life, but also a cognitive breakthrough into its pores.
He was left alone in the world when playful hunters, hunting pheasants, shot from a double barrel and hit his parents, who were forced by the dogs to fly from the bushes where they were pecking at snails.
A Little Before Everything, Long Ago We Are is the eleventh collection of poetry by Goran Rem (b. 1958, Osijek), a poet, essayist, literary historian, and member of the Quorum generation in Croatian literature.
MeandarMedia, 2024.
Croatian. Latin alphabet. Paperback with dust jacket.
A piano usually has 88 keys, 52 white and 36 black, from which 88 tones emerge. A pianist usually reads 88 notes. These 88 micro-proses simultaneously constitute one piano and one piano concerto.