Pitanje nadležnosti: etnografske pjesme

On the way from work to home, in passing through ambulances, at stations and on trains, in the accelerated communication of the new millennium that largely uses the language of the Internet, abbreviations and emoticons, where is the place where poetry will meet us? Is it also hidden in drunken passers-by, doctors, and chance acquaintances? The famous culturologist and anthropologist Aljoša Pužar seeks the answer to this question in his collection Question of Jurisdiction. These are poems that were written by observation, whether the observer is at a distance or gets involved in the creation of poetic tissue.

Urban everyday life, politics in conversations, swearing, decadence, false moral postulates and the consumption of culture because it is trendy – all this is part of the reality in which poetry tries to survive. Aljoša Pužar leaves the reader with questions about the conditions of that survival, and with a clear diagnosis of today.

The Question of Competence is an anthropological study of everyday life in the age of capitalism and the superficial understanding of cognition and knowledge, when there is no longer even time – for poetry, but most of all, it is poetry that has always been passed down from mouth to mouth, to be written down in the poet himself.