Award-winning collection by Davor Ivankovac from 2018. Through atmospheric verses, the author explores motifs of decay, wistful nostalgia, the melancholy of growing up, and the forgotten spaces of his Slavonian homeland.
Writing in the first person singular, Stojić depicted the life and dreams, experience and fate, defeat and loss of homeland of a generation, a city, an era.
The title poem, "The Black Rabbit," represents a kind of symbolist maneuver within "real" poetry, because like Baudelaire's "Albatross," it possesses a pronounced unambiguous charge.