pH neutral history by Lidija Dimkovska and translated by Ljubica Arsovska, Peggy Reid

This is poetry from Macedonia.

pH neutral history by Lidija Dimkovska translated by Ljubica Arsovska, Peggy Reid is published by Copper Canyon Press. This is a Book originally written in Macedonian. This was published in 2012.0 and has the ISBN of 9.781556593758E12.

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.

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