The writer, editor, critic, anthologist, essayist and translator Branko Čegec (1957) made his poetic debut with experimental poems, and subsequently devoted himself to free verse. A highly influential editor, first of one of the most significant literary magazines in the former Yugoslavia, Quorum (1985-1989), and then in his own publishing firm, Meander, which he founded in 1992; in 1999 he was appointed the chairman of the managing board of Goranovo Proljeće, the most important poetry festival in Croatia.
When I stopped writing reviews
I wrote them in every sentence that I uttered.
When I stopped writingWhen I stopped writing reviews
I wrote them in every sentence that I uttered.
When I stopped writing
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The triumph of numbers comes off the screen.
I slow down, powerless and silent.
As if renewed
in the belated philosophy of language and wine
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yves sent me a text message:
for three days now some italian girl's been watching me under water.
i watch her too, down there we're naked and alone. on the surface
we don't know each other.
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after two hours of nervous ride on a dirt
road, we drove, still hot from the trip, into an automatic
car wash. thick foam darted out of
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