Initial Coordinates by Monika Herceg and translated by Marina Veverec

This is poetry from Croatia.

Initial Coordinates by Monika Herceg translated by Marina Veverec is published by Obrt za nakladnistvo, posrednistvo i trgovinu Sandorf. This is a Book originally written in Croatian. This was published in 2022.0 and has the ISBN of 9.78953351372E12.

Initial Coordinates, translated from the Croatian by Marina Veverec, brings Monika Herceg’s Croatian-language work into English through Obrt za nakladnistvo, posrednistvo i trgovinu Sandorf. Published in 2022, it is best approached as a book of encounter rather than as a book to solve. Herceg’s title already suggests a poetics of orientation: where does a life begin, what map does grief make, and how does the body learn its first directions after disruption? I would begin with the poem itself: the image that refuses to behave, the phrase that gives the page a new temperature, the pressure of voice moving from one language into another. Good translated poetry does not only deliver information about Croatia. It changes the reader’s sense of what English can hold, which makes this volume both a literary record and a readerly invitation.

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