Everything I Need This Spring is the first solo poetry collection by Evelina Rudan, a poet and scholar from Pula and Zagreb (born 1971). The book represents a significant contribution to contemporary Istrian Chakavian lyric poetry.
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.
The book of poems by Irena Skopljak Barić Moja begins unexpectedly with its ending, a decisive point that is a conclusion, appropriation and dedication, but shares them equally with others, "with my own".
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.