sympathy for the salami

Milena Marković (b. 1974) is an award-winning Serbian poet, playwright, and screenwriter. She has published seven poetry collections; her latest collection, Deca (Children), a book-length poem published in 2021, won the NIN Book of the Year Award, the Serbian equivalent of the Pulitzer Prize. The book has been adapted into an opera in Belgrade, Serbia and a play in Zagreb, Croatia. Her own plays have been staged across Europe and in the United States. She has also written screenplays for film and TV, such as Patria, winner for Best Screenplay at the FEST International Film Festival. …a vivid, honest, often funny, sometimes disturbing voice from this Serbian poet who confronts her life more directly than most of us have the courage to do. As she tells us, she writes for everyone, the living and the dead and those who won’t die, and for the children who “walk in the murk,” so they can find the way out of it. – Susanna Lang , author of Travel Notes from the River Styx , and translator of My Soul Has No Corners by Souad Labbize Welcome to the brilliant, incisive, and feral world of Milena Marković’s poems… Huge thanks to Steven and Maja Teref for this rich and evocative translation from the Serbian… – Tony Trigilio , author of Craft: A Memoir This book fits Richard Hell’s definition of punk: “anti-authority, independent, tricky, unsentimental, dirty, quick, subversive, guiltless.” These poems love only honesty. They will never stoop to comfort. – Darcie Dennigan , author of Madame X For English language readers in the 21st Century, this collection is a must… Grab yourself a copy and hold on for the ride. – Virginia Bell , Editor of RHINO Poetry , and author of Lifting Child from the Ground, Turning Around – ASIN: 195692129X | ISBN13: 9781956921298 | ISBN-13: 978-1956921298