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.
Writing in the first person singular, Stojić depicted the life and dreams, experience and fate, defeat and loss of homeland of a generation, a city, an era.
Fra Martin Nedić was the first Bosnian Illyrian, one of the fathers of the Illyrian movement, a leading intellectual of his time, a church diplomat, a Franciscan friar, a builder, an educator, a historian and a writer.
The intense saturation and density of this poetry make it impossible to read this book in one sitting. It must be taken slowly and measuredly, as each poem requires a longer process of reception.
Fraktura, 2019.
Croatian. Latin alphabet. Hardcover with dust jacket.