Uglavnom pridjevi

The title of the collection itself seems to acknowledge that the essential eludes these poems, but also that the attempt to reach that essential is what all art and all life consists of. A glance at the titles of the “poems” (say, the first four: Life, Ascension, Beauty, Transubstantiation) will confirm the author’s philosophical preoccupations and show that Hrvoje Jurić is a poet who emerged from philosophy, or vice versa. Who knows what the First is. All-pervading, if anything then that, a noble attempt to encompass everything and articulate everything that the poetic subject inhabits – and which precisely eludes – is probably the fundamental concept, although unspoken in the collection. But the point is in the attempt: therein lies the (s)ense. The poet will say that following the play of objects that grow into symbols and inevitable meanings is a silent call, the photosynthesis of the philosopher.