Cat painters by Biljana Obradovic and translated by Dubravka Djuric

This is poetry from Serbia.

Cat painters by Biljana Obradovic translated by Dubravka Djuric is published by Dialogos. This is a Book originally written in Serbian. This was published in 2016.0 and has the ISBN of 9.781944884086E12.

Cat painters, by Biljana Obradovic, is a Serbian poetry collection from Serbia, translated by Dubravka Djuric, published by Dialogos in 2016. It is a Serbian collection where animal presence, artistic attention, and domestic strangeness create a sly lyric surface. The title is immediately playful, but the best playful titles usually know something serious about looking. I would not ask the reader to solve this book before feeling it. The better invitation is to start with the image that will not quite explain itself, then follow the pressure of cadence, silence, and address. For this library, the book matters as more than a representative entry from Serbia. It gives English-language readers another route into how poetry travels: not as a tidy report from elsewhere, but as a living encounter with local weather, historical pressure, and the privacy of a voice.

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.

Check out more of the always in-progress translated poetry index here.