Mamasafari by Olja Savicevic and translated by Andrea Jurjevic

This is poetry from Croatia.

Mamasafari by Olja Savicevic translated by Andrea Jurjevic is published by Dialogos / Lavender Ink. This is a Book originally written in Croatian. This was published in 2018.0 and has the ISBN of 9.781944884383E12.

Mamasafari, by Olja Savicevic, is a Croatian poetry collection from Croatia, translated from Croatian by Andrea Jurjevic, published by Dialogos / Lavender Ink in 2018. It is a Croatian collection by Olja Savičević, translated by Andrea Jurjević, whose title carries motherhood, travel, play, and strangeness at once. The poems invite a reader to think of domestic and bodily life as an expedition, full of comic danger and unexpected terrain. I would not approach it as a book that needs to be solved before it can begin working. Start with the title, the pressure of the translated line, and the feeling of a voice making room for itself in English. The value here is not just metadata or representation. It is the chance to let a particular book create its own weather, its own difficulty, and its own way of asking the reader to listen.

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