Poetry
Дождови
Not translated into English
Mateja Matevski · 1956
Synopsis
The first collection of a poet who had first published his verse in a journal, in a lyrical vein that critics regard as the mark of his early books. It takes its title from the triptych that made him known, “Дождови”, rains, whose first part is titled “Страв”, fear, and which is said to have been written one morning in 1954. Nothing else in the volume is described.
Context
The collection appeared from Kultura, in Skopje, in 1956. The triptych that gives it its title had appeared in the spring of 1955 in the journal Млада литература. Vlada Urošević sees in it the first modern poetry of its literature, the poetry that marked the beginning of modernism and the end of dogmatism, and that many tried to imitate. In 1958, the poem was the only Macedonian text in an anthology of contemporary Yugoslav poetry published in Paris. Its author received the writers' society poetry prize in 1956.
Who it is for
In Macedonian, with no French translation of the collection. It is best read as a beginning, that of a body of work of twenty-four collections.
Prizes and reception
Regarded as the birth certificate of modern poetry in Macedonia, it won its title poem a long line of imitators.
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