It is the first book of poetry that deals entirely with depression, frenzy, mobbing, and loss of identity.
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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.
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.
The book is designed as a series of "islands" - individual poems that function independently, but complement each other, forming a thematic whole.
This is a collection in which the city becomes an interlocutor, a space whose streets, parks and courtyards become places of encounter (with oneself).
The book contains a selection of Šop's poetry and prose, the play The Eternal Prelude, Šop's letters to Dragutin Tadijanović, and memories of his acquaintance with Francis Jammes. The selection was compiled and the foreword written by Branimir Donat.
The bilingual Hungarian-Croatian edition of the poem collection "Tiger" presents a selection from an extensive cycle of around 150–200 poems about the tiger - a symbol of strength, freedom, wilderness, the cosmos, the subconscious and the return to the pr