A reflective collection of poetry by Petar Elez from 2018. Through motifs of stone, karst, and the human heart, the poet explores inner turmoil, belonging to one's homeland, transience, and deep spiritual and emotional struggles.
The collection consists of four cycles separated from each other, with the following titles: "Let me praise you", "Dedications", "Tear for Notre Dame", "Roman reading".
A song is a source of hope, it is also a refuge, sometimes it is an unleashed pain, other times it is an exclamation of joy – ultimately, a song is life, and life, at least sometimes, should be a song.
The following pages are torn from the book of the people's revolution. From the book? No, from the womb, from the veins, from the bloodstream, from the roots of life. They are the history of love.
Everything I Need This Spring is the first solo poetry collection by Evelina Rudan, a poet and scholar from Pula and Zagreb (born 1971). The book represents a significant contribution to contemporary Istrian Chakavian lyric poetry.