In a Sentimental Mood by Ivana Bodrožić and translated by Ellen Elias-Bursać, Damir Šodan

This is poetry from Croatia.

In a Sentimental Mood by Ivana Bodrožić translated by Ellen Elias-Bursać, Damir Šodan is published by Obrt za nakladnistvo, posrednistvo i trgovinu Sandorf. This is a Book originally written in Croatian. This was published in 2021.0 and has the ISBN of 9.789533512853E12.

In a Sentimental Mood, by Ivana Bodrožić and translated by Ellen Elias-Bursać, Damir Šodan from Croatian, brings Croatian-language poetry from Croatia into English through Croatian sentiment, mood, and Ivana Bodrozic’s title borrowing the atmosphere of music without becoming soft. The metadata gives the reader a doorway, but the real value is what happens once the poem starts making its own weather. I would read it for mood, music, memory, and the emotional weather that gathers around a self after rupture, not as a fixed lesson about Croatia. The best entry point is still the poem itself: the line that catches, the image that refuses to explain itself, the feeling that arrives before paraphrase. In a Sentimental Mood belongs in the translated poetry library because it brings contemporary Croatian poetry into the library through atmosphere, loss, and tonal intelligence.

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