A reflective collection of poetry by Petar Elez from 2018. Through motifs of stone, karst, and the human heart, the poet explores inner turmoil, belonging to one's homeland, transience, and deep spiritual and emotional struggles.
The collection consists of four cycles separated from each other, with the following titles: "Let me praise you", "Dedications", "Tear for Notre Dame", "Roman reading".
A song is a source of hope, it is also a refuge, sometimes it is an unleashed pain, other times it is an exclamation of joy – ultimately, a song is life, and life, at least sometimes, should be a song.
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.
The title poem, "The Black Rabbit," represents a kind of symbolist maneuver within "real" poetry, because like Baudelaire's "Albatross," it possesses a pronounced unambiguous charge.
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
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.