sympathy for the salami
Language: English
Published by Dialogos Nov 2024, 2024
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Neuware - Milena Markovic is a city poet who revels in the crumbling concrete and smoked meat of Belgrade and other European metropolises populated by the addicted, the down-and-out, the mad, and the shady. sympathy for the salami selects work from her seven poetry collections, including excerpts from her novel-in-verse Children, which encompass the full range of her humor and terror. Her poems present a blemished nakedness in their candor about her drug-and-alcohol-fueled music scene days and their aftermath, as well as her life as a mother to a son with intellectual disabilities. Motifs of substance abuse, an unabashed love of meat, the dailiness of European urban life, childhood trauma, haunted dreamscapes, and the demands of motherhood permeate the work, steeped in the intricacies of Balkan culture. Readers of American poets as diverse as Anne Sexton and Charles Bukowski will find Markovic's confessional voice, while readers of Charles Simic will chuckle over her humorous voltas, fans of surrealism will feel at home in her dreamscapes, and Frank O'Hara devotees will appreciate her fresh portrayals of European urban dailiness. In sympathy for the salami, we hear a vivid, honest, often funny, sometimes disturbing voice from this Serbian poet who confronts her life more directly than most of us have the courage to do. As she tells us, she writes for everyone, the living and the dead and those who won't die, and for the children who 'walk in the murk,' so they can find the way out of it. She herself is still in it, and she has learned that 'the murk is not the worst place/the end is not the worst place/fear is.' Whether she is describing wild parties or delirium tremens, a love affair or her grandfather grabbing his granddaughters behind the house, even her ambivalent feelings toward the disabled son to whom she gave birth when she was not much more than a child, she remains fearless. At times, the rush of language and the bohemian scenes remind me of Frank O'Hara, at other times her despair makes me think of Billie Holiday greeting her heartbreak. But Milena Markovic is very much her own self, and Maja and Steven Teref have found a muscular English to embody her voice and make us forget that she does not live just down the street.-Susanna Lang, author of Travel Notes from the River Styx, and translator of My Soul Has No Corners by Souad Labbize. …
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- Title
- sympathy for the salami
- Author
- Milena Markovic
- Publisher
- Dialogos Nov 2024
- Publication year
- 2024
- Condition
- Neu
- Binding
- Taschenbuch
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 195692129X
- ISBN 13
- 9781956921298
- Item weight
- 295 grams
- Dimensions
- 229x152x11 mm
Milena Marković (b. 1974) is an award-winning Serbian poet, playwright, and screenwriter. She has published seven poetry collections; her latest collection, Deca (Children), a book-length poem published in 2021, won the NIN Book of the Year Award, the Serbian equivalent of the Pulitzer Prize. The book has been adapted into an opera in Belgrade, Serbia and a play in Zagreb, Croatia. Her own plays have been staged across Europe and in the United States. She has also written screenplays for film and TV, such as Patria, winner for Best Screenplay at the FEST International Film Festival.
...a vivid, honest, often funny, sometimes disturbing voice from this Serbian poet who confronts her life more directly than most of us have the courage to do. As she tells us, she writes for everyone, the living and the dead and those who won’t die, and for the children who “walk in the murk,” so they can find the way out of it.
-Susanna Lang, author of Travel Notes from the River Styx, and translator of My Soul Has No Corners by Souad Labbize
Welcome to the brilliant, incisive, and feral world of Milena Marković’s poems... Huge thanks to Steven and Maja Teref for this rich and evocative translation from the Serbian...
-Tony Trigilio, author of Craft: A Memoir
This book fits Richard Hell’s definition of punk: “anti-authority, independent, tricky, unsentimental, dirty, quick, subversive, guiltless.” These poems love only honesty. They will never stoop to comfort.
-Darcie Dennigan, author of Madame X
For English language readers in the 21st Century, this collection is a must... Grab yourself a copy and hold on for the ride.
-Virginia Bell, Editor of RHINO Poetry, and author of Lifting Child from the Ground, Turning Around
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