Novica Tadić’s The Red Locust is a key representative poem from this Montenegran (Yugoslavian) poet’s seminal 1981 collection Ždrelo (Maw). This poem has a majority of the hallmarks found in the poet’s oeuvre. The poem, much like the collection from… Read More ›
Yugoslav poetry analysis
Analysis of Ivan Lalić’s Mnemosyne: An Ode to Memory
The consequence of history—erasure—is a common theme in Ivan Lalić’s oeuvre. But instead of wallowing in what is lost, he focuses on the remains, which most often take the form of memory. As such, it is fitting that of all… Read More ›