Dejan Stojanović
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Dejan Stojanović is a Serbian
-American poet
, writer, essayist, philosopher, businessman, and former journalist. His poetry is characterized by a recognizable system of thought and poetic devices, bordering on philosophy, and, overall, it has a highly reflective tone. According to the critic Petar V. Arbutina, “Stojanović belongs to the small and autochthonous circle of poets who have been the main creative and artistic force of the Serbian poetry in the last several decades."
, Montenegro
) to Orasi (Lješanska Nahija, Crna Gora
). According to the oral tradition, they descended from one of the most famous Serbian noblemen, Strahinjić Ban (Strahinja Banović
, Banović Strahinja). Some members of the original family moved to Kosovo in the early 1930s.
Stojanović’s paternal grandmother, Anđa, was from a distinguished Montenegrin family, the Lubarda family, of which the most prominent member was Petar Lubarda
, arguably the best and most celebrated painter of the former Yugoslavia
(about whom Sir Herbert Read wrote with delight).
, Kosovo
(the former Yugoslavia), which is the administrative and cultural center of Metohija, where the Patriarchate of Peć
is located. Having grown up in a socialist country and in a multi-ethnic community of Kosovo, he encountered all the paradoxes of communism
in the former Yugoslavia at a very early age.
In 1972, he moved with his family to Sutomore
(a small town on the Adriatic Coast, near Bar, Montenegro
) and he completed the school year there. Even after he moved back to Peć, every year, he spent long summer vacations with his family in their summer home in Sutomore and frequently visited the neighboring towns of Bar, Petrovac
, St. Stefan, Budva
, Kotor
, Tivat
, and Herceg Novi
.
The overwhelming presence of water and the sea in his poetry probably can be explained by the fact that he lived in close proximity to the Adriatic Sea
. Further, when he moved to Chicago
, he was fascinated by Lake Michigan
, which is more than twice the size of the Adriatic Sea. In addition, the mountains of both Montenegro and Peć (Prokletije
) also influenced his poetry as evidenced by the fact that they became the other reoccurring theme in his works.
His first urges, which endured throughout his lifetime, were toward philosophy. By the age of 14, he became interested in acting and directing. Shy by nature, he never told anyone of his secret interests but was sure he would be able to explore them one day. He watched at least one movie, and sometimes two or three, every day.
In 1976, he visited Paris
, and, during that visit, a Serbian political émigré, Jovan Brkić, promised to arrange admission to the Sorbonne
for him. Unfortunately, he did not pursue this opportunity, and he later regretted that decision.
in Kosovo. He planned to pursue his other interests later.
His first urges to write were apparent even at the age of 10, but began to write poetry at the age of 18. He always knew he would be an author, although he expected that it would be in the domain of philosophy rather than literature because he already had established a set of elaborate philosophical ideas very early in his life.
In early 1978, he began to write poetry, and there is some evidence that, most likely, he was motivated by the intense infatuation he felt toward a girl who lived in the same town. He woke up one morning with a short, but complete, poem on his mind. The same thing happened a few days later, and it happened a third time after another few days passed. He viewed this experience as a definite sign that he should write poetry, which he did, but he hid his work for three to four years.
After this period of secrecy, he began to express his poetry more openly, and he published his poems in some of the most important literary magazines in the former Yugoslavia, such as Oko (The Eye) in Zagreb
, Croatia
, Jedinstvo (Unity), and Stremljenja (Trends) in Priština. In 1982 or 1983, he became the secretary of a Literary Club (Karagač) in his hometown of Peć, and, later, he became the president of the Club. He was offered the opportunity to be the editor-in-chief of the local radio station in Peć, but he refused; however, he conducted several interviews with some eminent artists from Kosovo. His first book of poetry, Circling (Krugovanje), was ready for publication in 1983, but it was not published until 1993. By that time, some of the older poems had been removed and some new poems, written between 1983 and 1986, were included, along with the last poem in the book, which was written in Chicago in 1991. In 1986, as a young writer, he was recognized among 200 writers at the Bor
(Serbia, former Yugoslavia) Literary Festival. In the late 1980s, he became a Board member of the Literary Youth of Serbia.
In 1990, he established his private company in Peć and planned, among other things, to enter the publishing business. He named his company Metoh (the church’s land) and planned to publish a literary magazine with the same name. Even though he planned to publish the magazine in Kosovo, the staff consisted of writers from Belgrade
, one of whom was Alek Vukadinović, a famous Serbian poet who was an avid supporter of Stojanović’s idea of publishing the magazine.
In the last few years, he has started writing in English, and he has already written several books, not yet published, as well as some purely philosophical writings. Many of his new poems are less elliptical and rigid from both linguistic and poetic perspectives.
, Pogledi (Views). He interviewed many prominent Serbian writers in Belgrade, e.g., Momo Kapor
, Alek Vukadinović, and Nikola Milošević (politician)
. During his second visit to Paris in May and June 1990, he interviewed several internationally-recognized artists, e.g., Ljuba Popović
, Petar Omčikus, and Miloš Šobajić, who were of Serbian origin, as well as some French intellectuals, e.g., Jacques Claude Villard.
In December 1990, he went to the U.S. as a foreign correspondent
, planning to stay six months to a year. The goal was to conduct interviews with some important literary figures and then return to Yugoslavia. He accomplished this goal, although not fully, because the war started in the former Yugoslavia in the middle of 1991.
He received the prestigious Rastko Petrović Award from the Society of Serbian Writers for his book of interviews from 1990 to1992 in Europe
and Americas
, entitled Conversations, which included interviews with several major American writers, including Nobel Laureate Saul Bellow
, Charles Simic
, and Steve Tesich
.
right after the war in Kosovo (1999) ended. His books, along with his manuscripts, were held temporarily in his brother’s office in the center of downtown Peć.
. For that reason, writer and critic, David Kecman, described him as a cosmosophist.
In his poems, he covers the smallest and the largest topics with equal attention, often juxtaposing them to the level of paradox and absurdity, gradually building new perspectives and meanings that are not only poetic either in origin or in purpose. Some themes and preoccupations, be they stones or galaxies, are present in all of his books, and it can be said that his poetry books are, in themselves, long poems and that all of them serve as ingredients of a hyper-poetry book that is still in the making.
He used many poetic forms never used before in Serbian poetry and also created some new forms. “If elegance is represented by simplicity, then these are some of the most elegant verses imaginable," Branko Mikasinovich
stated.
Serbians
Serbians may refer to people who are identified with the country of Serbia, or people of the Serb ethnic group.However it could also be used as the translation of Serbian word "Србијанци" , especially when distinction is made between the two...
-American poet
Poet
A poet is a person who writes poetry. A poet's work can be literal, meaning that his work is derived from a specific event, or metaphorical, meaning that his work can take on many meanings and forms. Poets have existed since antiquity, in nearly all languages, and have produced works that vary...
, writer, essayist, philosopher, businessman, and former journalist. His poetry is characterized by a recognizable system of thought and poetic devices, bordering on philosophy, and, overall, it has a highly reflective tone. According to the critic Petar V. Arbutina, “Stojanović belongs to the small and autochthonous circle of poets who have been the main creative and artistic force of the Serbian poetry in the last several decades."
Family
About two centuries ago, ancestors of the Stojanovic family moved from Čevo (near CetinjeCetinje
Cetinje , Цетиње / Cetinje , Italian: Cettigne, Greek: Κετίγνη, Ketígni) is a town and Old Royal Capital of Montenegro. It is also a historical and the secondary capital of Montenegro , with the official residence of the President of Montenegro...
, Montenegro
Montenegro
Montenegro Montenegrin: Crna Gora Црна Гора , meaning "Black Mountain") is a country located in Southeastern Europe. It has a coast on the Adriatic Sea to the south-west and is bordered by Croatia to the west, Bosnia and Herzegovina to the northwest, Serbia to the northeast and Albania to the...
) to Orasi (Lješanska Nahija, Crna Gora
Crna Gora
Crna Gora means "black mountain" in Serbian and Macedonian. It may refer to one of the following:*Native name of Montenegro*Skopska Crna Gora, the mountain range on the border between the Republic of Serbia and the Republic of Macedonia...
). According to the oral tradition, they descended from one of the most famous Serbian noblemen, Strahinjić Ban (Strahinja Banović
Strahinja Banović
Strahinja Banović or Strahinjić Ban is the name of the historical nobleman and knight depicted in the Serbian epic poem of the same title....
, Banović Strahinja). Some members of the original family moved to Kosovo in the early 1930s.
Stojanović’s paternal grandmother, Anđa, was from a distinguished Montenegrin family, the Lubarda family, of which the most prominent member was Petar Lubarda
Petar Lubarda
Petar Lubarda was a Serbian painter, considered to be an influential figure on post-war painting in former Yugoslavia....
, arguably the best and most celebrated painter of the former Yugoslavia
Yugoslavia
Yugoslavia refers to three political entities that existed successively on the western part of the Balkans during most of the 20th century....
(about whom Sir Herbert Read wrote with delight).
Early years
Stojanović was born in PećPec
Peć or Pejë is a city and municipality in north-western Kosovo and Metohija - Serbia, and the administrative centre of the homonymous district. Governor of city is Ali Berisha....
, Kosovo
Kosovo
Kosovo is a region in southeastern Europe. Part of the Ottoman Empire for more than five centuries, later the Autonomous Province of Kosovo and Metohija within Serbia...
(the former Yugoslavia), which is the administrative and cultural center of Metohija, where the Patriarchate of Peć
Patriarchate of Pec
The Patriarchate of Peć is a Serbian Orthodox monastery located near Peć. The complex of churches is the spiritual seat and mausoleum of the Serbian archbishops and patriarchs....
is located. Having grown up in a socialist country and in a multi-ethnic community of Kosovo, he encountered all the paradoxes of communism
Communism
Communism is a social, political and economic ideology that aims at the establishment of a classless, moneyless, revolutionary and stateless socialist society structured upon common ownership of the means of production...
in the former Yugoslavia at a very early age.
In 1972, he moved with his family to Sutomore
Sutomore
Sutomore is a small coastal town in Bar Municipality, Montenegro. A 2003 census put the population at 1,827.-History:...
(a small town on the Adriatic Coast, near Bar, Montenegro
Bar, Montenegro
Bar is a coastal town in Montenegro. It has a population of 17,727...
) and he completed the school year there. Even after he moved back to Peć, every year, he spent long summer vacations with his family in their summer home in Sutomore and frequently visited the neighboring towns of Bar, Petrovac
Petrovac
Petrovac can refer to:* Petrovac , town and municipality in Serbia* Petrovac , town in municipality of Budva, Montenegro* Petrovac , municipality in Republika Srpska, Bosnia and Herzegovina...
, St. Stefan, Budva
Budva
Budva is a coastal town in Montenegro. It has around 15,000 inhabitants, and it is the centre of municipality...
, Kotor
Kotor
Kotor is a coastal city in Montenegro. It is located in a secluded part of the Gulf of Kotor. The city has a population of 13,510 and is the administrative center of the municipality....
, Tivat
Tivat
Tivat is a coastal town in southwest Montenegro, located in the Bay of Kotor...
, and Herceg Novi
Herceg Novi
Herceg Novi is a coastal town in Montenegro located at the entrance to the Bay of Kotor and at the foot of Mount Orjen. It is the administrative center of the Herceg Novi Municipality with around 33,000 inhabitants...
.
The overwhelming presence of water and the sea in his poetry probably can be explained by the fact that he lived in close proximity to the Adriatic Sea
Adriatic Sea
The Adriatic Sea is a body of water separating the Italian Peninsula from the Balkan peninsula, and the system of the Apennine Mountains from that of the Dinaric Alps and adjacent ranges...
. Further, when he moved to Chicago
Chicago
Chicago is the largest city in the US state of Illinois. With nearly 2.7 million residents, it is the most populous city in the Midwestern United States and the third most populous in the US, after New York City and Los Angeles...
, he was fascinated by Lake Michigan
Lake Michigan
Lake Michigan is one of the five Great Lakes of North America and the only one located entirely within the United States. It is the second largest of the Great Lakes by volume and the third largest by surface area, after Lake Superior and Lake Huron...
, which is more than twice the size of the Adriatic Sea. In addition, the mountains of both Montenegro and Peć (Prokletije
Prokletije
Prokletije or Albanian Alps is a mountain range in the Balkans that extends from northern Albania, to southwestern Serbia and eastern Montenegro. Its highest point, Jezercë in Albania at , is the tallest peak in the entire Dinaric Alps...
) also influenced his poetry as evidenced by the fact that they became the other reoccurring theme in his works.
His first urges, which endured throughout his lifetime, were toward philosophy. By the age of 14, he became interested in acting and directing. Shy by nature, he never told anyone of his secret interests but was sure he would be able to explore them one day. He watched at least one movie, and sometimes two or three, every day.
In 1976, he visited Paris
Paris
Paris is the capital and largest city in France, situated on the river Seine, in northern France, at the heart of the Île-de-France region...
, and, during that visit, a Serbian political émigré, Jovan Brkić, promised to arrange admission to the Sorbonne
Sorbonne
The Sorbonne is an edifice of the Latin Quarter, in Paris, France, which has been the historical house of the former University of Paris...
for him. Unfortunately, he did not pursue this opportunity, and he later regretted that decision.
Adulthood
Although Stojanović was interested predominantly in philosophy and the arts, he studied law and obtained a degree from the University of PrištinaPristina
Pristina, also spelled Prishtina and Priština is the capital and largest city of Kosovo. It is the administrative centre of the homonymous municipality and district....
in Kosovo. He planned to pursue his other interests later.
His first urges to write were apparent even at the age of 10, but began to write poetry at the age of 18. He always knew he would be an author, although he expected that it would be in the domain of philosophy rather than literature because he already had established a set of elaborate philosophical ideas very early in his life.
In early 1978, he began to write poetry, and there is some evidence that, most likely, he was motivated by the intense infatuation he felt toward a girl who lived in the same town. He woke up one morning with a short, but complete, poem on his mind. The same thing happened a few days later, and it happened a third time after another few days passed. He viewed this experience as a definite sign that he should write poetry, which he did, but he hid his work for three to four years.
After this period of secrecy, he began to express his poetry more openly, and he published his poems in some of the most important literary magazines in the former Yugoslavia, such as Oko (The Eye) in Zagreb
Zagreb
Zagreb is the capital and the largest city of the Republic of Croatia. It is in the northwest of the country, along the Sava river, at the southern slopes of the Medvednica mountain. Zagreb lies at an elevation of approximately above sea level. According to the last official census, Zagreb's city...
, Croatia
Croatia
Croatia , officially the Republic of Croatia , is a unitary democratic parliamentary republic in Europe at the crossroads of the Mitteleuropa, the Balkans, and the Mediterranean. Its capital and largest city is Zagreb. The country is divided into 20 counties and the city of Zagreb. Croatia covers ...
, Jedinstvo (Unity), and Stremljenja (Trends) in Priština. In 1982 or 1983, he became the secretary of a Literary Club (Karagač) in his hometown of Peć, and, later, he became the president of the Club. He was offered the opportunity to be the editor-in-chief of the local radio station in Peć, but he refused; however, he conducted several interviews with some eminent artists from Kosovo. His first book of poetry, Circling (Krugovanje), was ready for publication in 1983, but it was not published until 1993. By that time, some of the older poems had been removed and some new poems, written between 1983 and 1986, were included, along with the last poem in the book, which was written in Chicago in 1991. In 1986, as a young writer, he was recognized among 200 writers at the Bor
Bor
Bor may refer to:* Matej Bor, the pen name of the Slovene poet Vladimir Pavšič *Bor , a location in Afghanistan*Bor , a town in Plzeň Region , Czech Republic...
(Serbia, former Yugoslavia) Literary Festival. In the late 1980s, he became a Board member of the Literary Youth of Serbia.
In 1990, he established his private company in Peć and planned, among other things, to enter the publishing business. He named his company Metoh (the church’s land) and planned to publish a literary magazine with the same name. Even though he planned to publish the magazine in Kosovo, the staff consisted of writers from Belgrade
Belgrade
Belgrade is the capital and largest city of Serbia. It is located at the confluence of the Sava and Danube rivers, where the Pannonian Plain meets the Balkans. According to official results of Census 2011, the city has a population of 1,639,121. It is one of the 15 largest cities in Europe...
, one of whom was Alek Vukadinović, a famous Serbian poet who was an avid supporter of Stojanović’s idea of publishing the magazine.
In the last few years, he has started writing in English, and he has already written several books, not yet published, as well as some purely philosophical writings. Many of his new poems are less elliptical and rigid from both linguistic and poetic perspectives.
Journalism
In early 1990, Stojanović started writing for the first opposition magazine in SerbiaSerbia
Serbia , officially the Republic of Serbia , is a landlocked country located at the crossroads of Central and Southeast Europe, covering the southern part of the Carpathian basin and the central part of the Balkans...
, Pogledi (Views). He interviewed many prominent Serbian writers in Belgrade, e.g., Momo Kapor
Momo Kapor
Momčilo "Momo" Kapor was a Serbian novelist, painter, and short story writer.. Several successful films have been based upon his novels. He was born in Sarajevo, Kingdom of Yugoslavia and died in Belgrade, Serbia.Kapor was born in Sarajevo in 1937 and graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in...
, Alek Vukadinović, and Nikola Milošević (politician)
Nikola Miloševic (politician)
Nikola Milošević, PhD was a Serbian writer, political philosopher, literary critic, and politician....
. During his second visit to Paris in May and June 1990, he interviewed several internationally-recognized artists, e.g., Ljuba Popović
Ljuba Popovic
Ljubomir Ljuba Popović is a famous Serbian-born French Surrealist painter. He is renowned for his many erotic and unconventionally juxtaposed subject matters....
, Petar Omčikus, and Miloš Šobajić, who were of Serbian origin, as well as some French intellectuals, e.g., Jacques Claude Villard.
In December 1990, he went to the U.S. as a foreign correspondent
Foreign correspondent
Foreign Correspondent may refer to:*Foreign correspondent *Foreign Correspondent , an Alfred Hitchcock film*Foreign Correspondent , an Australian current affairs programme...
, planning to stay six months to a year. The goal was to conduct interviews with some important literary figures and then return to Yugoslavia. He accomplished this goal, although not fully, because the war started in the former Yugoslavia in the middle of 1991.
He received the prestigious Rastko Petrović Award from the Society of Serbian Writers for his book of interviews from 1990 to1992 in Europe
Europe
Europe is, by convention, one of the world's seven continents. Comprising the westernmost peninsula of Eurasia, Europe is generally 'divided' from Asia to its east by the watershed divides of the Ural and Caucasus Mountains, the Ural River, the Caspian and Black Seas, and the waterways connecting...
and Americas
Americas
The Americas, or America , are lands in the Western hemisphere, also known as the New World. In English, the plural form the Americas is often used to refer to the landmasses of North America and South America with their associated islands and regions, while the singular form America is primarily...
, entitled Conversations, which included interviews with several major American writers, including Nobel Laureate Saul Bellow
Saul Bellow
Saul Bellow was a Canadian-born Jewish American writer. For his literary contributions, Bellow was awarded the Pulitzer Prize, the Nobel Prize for Literature, and the National Medal of Arts...
, Charles Simic
Charles Simic
Dušan "Charles" Simić is a Serbian-American poet, and was co-Poetry Editor of the Paris Review. He was appointed the fifteenth Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress in 2007.-Early years:...
, and Steve Tesich
Steve Tesich
Stojan Steve Tesich was a Serbian-American screenwriter, playwright and novelist. He won the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay in 1979 for the movie Breaking Away.-Career:...
.
Lost library and manuscripts
In his early adulthood, Stojanović developed a philosophical system of ideas that dealt primarily with metaphysical questions and the structure of the Universe. He wrote several hundred pages in his notebooks exploring these ideas, along with essays on language and literature. Unfortunately, these manuscripts, along with his library of more than a thousand books (carefully chosen for years), were lost due to fire caused by militant ethnic AlbaniansAlbanians
Albanians are a nation and ethnic group native to Albania and neighbouring countries. They speak the Albanian language. More than half of all Albanians live in Albania and Kosovo...
right after the war in Kosovo (1999) ended. His books, along with his manuscripts, were held temporarily in his brother’s office in the center of downtown Peć.
Style
Stojanović’s poetry collections are characterized by sequences of compact, dense poems, simple yet complex in carefully organized overall structure, and that is why some more visibly than others appear as long poems. This is especially characteristic of the books, The Sign and its Children, The Shape, and The Creator (Znak I njegova deca, Oblik, Tvoritelj), in which, with a relatively small number of words repeated in different contexts, Stojanović built his own poetic cosmogonyCosmogony
Cosmogony, or cosmogeny, is any scientific theory concerning the coming into existence or origin of the universe, or about how reality came to be. The word comes from the Greek κοσμογονία , from κόσμος "cosmos, the world", and the root of γίνομαι / γέγονα "to be born, come about"...
. For that reason, writer and critic, David Kecman, described him as a cosmosophist.
In his poems, he covers the smallest and the largest topics with equal attention, often juxtaposing them to the level of paradox and absurdity, gradually building new perspectives and meanings that are not only poetic either in origin or in purpose. Some themes and preoccupations, be they stones or galaxies, are present in all of his books, and it can be said that his poetry books are, in themselves, long poems and that all of them serve as ingredients of a hyper-poetry book that is still in the making.
He used many poetic forms never used before in Serbian poetry and also created some new forms. “If elegance is represented by simplicity, then these are some of the most elegant verses imaginable," Branko Mikasinovich
Branko Mikasinovich
Branko Mikasinovich is a scholar of Yugoslav and Serbian literature as well as a noted Slavist. He has edited Introduction to Yugoslav Literature , a representative anthology of modern Yugoslav prose and poetry in English, Five Modern Yugoslav Plays , a unique collection of plays written between...
stated.
Poems
- A Man and the Sea
- A Man with a Guitar
- A New Friend
- A Night Worth a Life
- A Star Deep in the Mind
- A Woman in the Garden of Light
- Afterlife Light
- All Women in One
- Amateurs
- An Island in the mind
- Ancient Roman Villa
- Beauty Never Dies
- Before and After
- Being Late
- Big Dreams
- Big Miniature
- Birthplace
- Break Up
- Bright Moments
- Chance
- Children of Hope
- Dancing of Sounds
- Death
- Dictionary of Sounds
- Don Juan
- Don Quixote
- Dream within the dream in the Dream of Edgar Allan Poe
- Early Morning
- Early Retirement
- Echo
- Emily Dickinson
- Emissaries
- End of the Labyrinth
- Eternal Father
- Evening by the Lake
- Fairy Tale
- Faith
- Fertile Ground
- First Love
- Flower
- Flying and Meditation
- Forgotten Home
- Forgotten Sounds
- Future Man
- Ghazal of Love
- Home
- I remember the Snows in the Summer’s Light
- I Smell You Everywhere
- Imperfection
- In a Little World
- In the Heart of the Night
- Inner Space
- Inside and Outside the Balloon
- It Is So Simple
- Feelings and Thoughts
- Knowledge
- Life Is Everywhere
- Life Is Poetry
- Love in Arizona
- Lover
- Mastery
- Memory and Oblivion
- Morning
- Mountains and Seas
- Muse I
- Muse II
- My Life
- My Other Self
- Nowhere
- Old and New
- One World
- Path
- People
- Perfect Boredom
- Poetry and Life
- Poetry and Women
- Possibility
- Rain
- Reality
- Robert Frost
- Sadness and Happiness
- Seagull from Afar
- Serious Business
- She Is the Spring in You
- She Was Always There
- Silence Is the Universal Library
- Silent Equality
- Simplicity
- Siren
- Song in the Garden
- Song of Elysium
- Song of Light
- Song of the Dream
- Song within a Song
- Sound Bombs
- Sounds of Imagination
- Sounds of Life and Love
- Sounds of Love and Hate
- Special Feeling
- Star
- Staying Crazy
- Stupidity
- Task of a Poet
- The Art of Love
- The Book of Books
- The Kiss of Light and Darkness
- The Land Beyond
- The Light from the Mind
- The New Sun and the New Moon
- The Return
- The Rise of a Barbarian
- The Sea and the World
- The Source
- The Strange Love Song of T. S. Eliot
- Two Stars
- Understanding
- Unending Life
- Unpretentious Dreams
- Unusual Love
- Wallace Stevens
- Walt Whitman
- Who Killed the Beauty?
- William Butler Yeats
- Wonder
- Words and Beauty
- Words and Life
- You are the Star
- You are What You See
Poetry collections
- Krugovanje: 1978–1987 (Circling), (Narodna knjiga, Alfa, Beograd, 19931993 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:* January 20 — Maya Angelou reads "On the Pulse of Morning" at the inauguration of President Bill Clinton* T. S...
) - Krugovanje: 1978–1987 (Circling), Second Edition, (Narodna knjiga, Alfa, Beograd, 19981998 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:* Samizdat poetry magazine founded in Chicago .* Skanky Possum poetry magazine founded in Austin, Texas....
) - Sunce sebe gleda (The Sun Watches Itself), (Književna reč, Beograd, 19991999 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:* July 1 — Scotland's Parliament opened with the singing of Robert Burns' "A Man's a Man For A'That", instead of "God Save The Queen"...
) - Znak i njegova deca (The Sign and its Children), (Prosveta, Beograd, 20002000 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:* Griffin Poetry Prize is established, with one award given each year for the best work by a Canadian poet and one award given for best work in the English language internationally.* February —...
) - Oblik (The Shape), (Gramatik, Podgorica, 20002000 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:* Griffin Poetry Prize is established, with one award given each year for the best work by a Canadian poet and one award given for best work in the English language internationally.* February —...
) - Tvoritelj (The Creator), (Narodna knjiga, Alfa, Beograd, 20002000 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:* Griffin Poetry Prize is established, with one award given each year for the best work by a Canadian poet and one award given for best work in the English language internationally.* February —...
) - Krugovanje (Circling), Third Edition, (Narodna knjiga, Alfa, Beograd, 20002000 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:* Griffin Poetry Prize is established, with one award given each year for the best work by a Canadian poet and one award given for best work in the English language internationally.* February —...
) - Ples vremena (Dance of Time), (Konras, Beograd, 20072007 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:* March 5: a car bomb was exploded on Mutanabbi Street in Baghdad. More than 30 people were killed and more than 100 were wounded. This locale is the historic center of Baghdad bookselling, a winding...
)
Interviews
- Razgovori (Conversations), (Književna reč, Beograd, 19991999 in literatureThe year 1999 in literature involved some significant events and new books.-Events:*June 19 - Stephen King is hit by a Dodge van while taking a walk. He spends the next three weeks hospitalized...
)
External links
- Dejan Stojanović at the Open Library (Open LibraryOpen LibraryOpen Library is an online project intended to create “one web page for every book ever published”. Open Library is a project of the non-profit Internet Archive and has been funded in part by a grant from the California State Library and the Kahle/Austin Foundation.-Books for the blind and...
) - Dejan Stojanović at the Internet Archive (Internet ArchiveInternet ArchiveThe Internet Archive is a non-profit digital library with the stated mission of "universal access to all knowledge". It offers permanent storage and access to collections of digitized materials, including websites, music, moving images, and nearly 3 million public domain books. The Internet Archive...
) - Dejan Stojanović at Poem Hunter
- World Cat (WorldCatWorldCatWorldCat is a union catalog which itemizes the collections of 72,000 libraries in 170 countries and territories which participate in the Online Computer Library Center global cooperative...
catalog) - Poems by Dejan Stojanović
- Poetry in English by Dejan Stojanović
- Poetry in French by Dejan Stojanović
- Poetry in Serbian by Dejan Stojanović
- Reflections with Saul Bellow by Dejan Stojanović
- Interview with Charles Simic by Dejan Stojanović
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