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Zvonko Karanovi\u0107<\/b><\/a><\/h1>\n

Translated by Biljana D. Obradovi\u0107<\/a><\/h2>\n

Sleepwalkers on a Picnic (Prose Poems)<\/h3>\n

ISBN: 978-1-944884-70-3 (pbk.)<\/p>\n

(January, 2020)\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Sleepwalkers on a \u00a0Picnic <\/i>introduces poet Zvonko Karanovi\u0107 to English-speaking readers, and in the genre of the prose poem, which is extremely rare in the Serbian poetics. Poems in prose were historically written in the age of symbolism, expressionism and surrealism, however Karanovi\u0107’s poetics formed during the 80s, in the poetic culture of socialist Yugoslavia. His work is thus fundamentally marked\u00a0by postmodernism, as evidenced in his authorial reflexivity and problematizations of the narrator role. Perhaps more important, though, is the influence of the\u00a0Beats, from whom he inherits an anaphoric music reminiscent of Ginsberg or James Tate, whom he quotes. These poems in prose, in striking translation by Biljana D. Obradovi\u0107, have also absorbed American pop culture\u2014music and film as well as poetry\u2014and thus pay testament to our era of globalization.\u00a0Zvonko Karanovi\u0107\u2019s poems show how one exciting local poetic opus can be realized in transnational models which today we share more than ever.\u00a0
\n\u2014Dubravka Djuri\u0107<\/b>, Poet, Critic, Professor, Faculty of Media and Communications, Belgrade, Serbia, co-editor, Cat Painters: Anthology of Contemporary<\/i> <\/a>Serbian Poetry<\/a> <\/i>(Di\u00e1logos, 2016).<\/p>\n

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Imagine if James Tate\u2014master of the surreal, blackly humorous prose poem\u2014had lived through a hellish war and a repressive political regime without losing his zany wit. The outcome might well be these forty cinematic prose poems by Zvonko\u00a0Karanovi\u0107, expertly translated by the Serbian-American poet Biljana Obradovi\u0107.
\n\u2014Julie Kane<\/b>, Past\u00a0Louisiana Poet Laureate, co-editor of the translation from the Lithuanian of Terribly in Love: Selected Poems<\/i>, by Tautvyda Marcinkevi\u010di\u016bt\u0117\u00a0<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

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Sixty is an especially interesting age for a poet: old enough to have experienced the best and the worst the world has to offer, more than once, and too young to say enough\u2019s enough, just forget it!\u00a0 Arriving at this point in his life, Zvonko Karanovi\u0107 asks yet again the one truly essential question, Who am I?\u00a0In these sentence poems, studiously translated by Biljana Obradovi\u0107, Karanovi\u0107 offers in the third person tantalizing responses to this question: \u201cHe was more attuned to fantasy than to work, to excuses than to conflict.\u201d The dreamscapes in this book are often fantastical, peopled by unforgettable characters, and are well worth getting to know.
\n\u2014Timothy Skeen<\/b>, Poet, California State University, Fresno, Professor of English, author of Reward<\/i><\/p>\n

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Cover Art: \u201cBus Full of Sleepwalkers\u201d by Simon Kastelic \u00a9 2019<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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