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Licna
Karta:
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You'll let her fly away from the infinity of your eye into glittering, final doubt... When she is no more, in the crystal of your mental kinescope, you'll see her again: speechless, armless, she'll try to jump out from the scum of her own scales; seeing how the dungeon doors close with a bang of your captivity into yourself. She'll fly! Headless, or with her head in clouds. It's all the same. In fact: she'll fly over thousands of miles with the noise of aircraft engines, until she finds a firm ground and again become–HUMAN. To come back to that country where adults teach children the things they don't believe in, will probably be impossible for her. That goldfish, whom you once helped discover she knew how to fly... If your wish to see her is great, teach her to speak in your dream: with the same language, she learned to love you with... (inspired
by Emir Kusturica) _________________________________________________________________________ SNEZANA IVKOVIC wrote the following for her contributor's note: I came to Canada in 1993 from Belgrade. I have a book of poetry, "Licna Karta" ("Personal Card"), published by RAD, a well known publisher in Yugoslavia and my new manuscript, "Rastojanja", ("Distances") was sent to Belgrade a week ago. My poetry has been published in three other books in Serbian language and I was awarded with the second price in Dortmund, in 1998, Germany, with the first prize in Belgrade in 1998. In a month or two we are expecting a book of poetry written by the most famous poets from Serbia and from around the world, who write in Serbian. That poetry was written during the two months of bombing, from March 24.-June 09, 1999 and was read publicly every day at noon, despite the bombing, in one of the downtown streets in the heart of Belgrade. One of those poems is mine and I am looking forward to seeing that historic document, written from the bleeding soul of the Serbian poets and people. On "Arizona Dream" Snezana Ivkovic said that "the
poem was inspired by the Muslim film director, Emir Kusturica. He is a famous director,
awarded in many film festivals in the world. I am sending you my only poem in English, translated by Ph.D. Biljana D. Obradovic, professor of Creative Writing at the Xaviar University in New Orleans.
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