Book record
pH neutral history
Lidija Dimkovska
Translated from Macedonian by Ljubica Arsovska
pH Neutral History, by Lidija Dimkovska and translated by Ljubica Arsovska and Peggy Reid, is a Macedonian poetry collection with a title that feels both scientific and impossible. History is rarely neutral. It burns, stains, corrodes, preserves, lies, and gets inherited by bodies that did not choose it. By invoking pH, Dimkovska suggests a poetry alert to chemical balance, toxicity, and the fantasy of clean measurement. I would read this book as a sharp investigation of memory, identity, and political residue. The title’s brilliance is that it makes neutrality itself suspicious. Arsovska and Reid’s translation has to carry intellectual wit alongside emotional pressure. For readers interested in Balkan literature, feminist thought, and poems that question history’s supposed objectivity, this seems like a fascinating and necessary collection.
- Published
- 2012
- Publisher
- Copper Canyon Press
- Language
- Macedonian
- Country
- Macedonia
- ISBN
- 9781556593758