Breathing Technique by Marija Knezevic and translated by Sibelan Forrester

This is poetry from Serbia.

Breathing Technique by Marija Knezevic translated by Sibelan Forrester is published by Zephyr Press. This is a Book originally written in Serbian. This was published in 2020.0 and has the ISBN of 9.781938890819E12.

Breathing Technique, by Marija Knezevic, is a Serbian poetry collection from Serbia, translated by Sibelan Forrester, published by Zephyr Press in 2020. It is a Serbian collection that approaches breath as body, discipline, and lyric survival. Knezevic’s poems suggest that to keep breathing is not passive; it is practice, resistance, and a way of staying present inside pressure. I would not approach it as a book that needs to be solved or reduced to context before it can begin working. Start with the pressure of the title, the texture of the translated line, and the feeling of a voice making room for itself in English. For this library, the book matters as more than a record of Serbia; it is an invitation to let poetry remain particular, difficult, and alive without asking it to behave like explanation.

If you’d like to see international poetry continue and gain traction, consider requesting this work from your local library, or purchasing it from places like Open Books (a poetry only bookstore), Asterism Books (an independent press distributor), or bookshop.org to connect you with your local bookstores.

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