Poetry collection
Hleba i cigara!
A fierce critique of a world without love, in which the inner child cannot survive.
Some books appear quietly, take their place on a shelf and wait to be discovered. Others enter the literary space as a breakthrough, tearing down the doors of their own intimacy and of social conventions with such force that it is impossible to stay aside. „Hleba i cigara!” by Milica Stojanović belongs to that second, rarer kind.
This book is a pulsing organism, in which every verse is a nerve ending exposed to the world without a protective membrane. Milica does not write poetry to decorate it; she uses it to diagnose, dissect and, finally, to survive. That search begins from the only possible place... From herself!
„Hleba i cigara!” is a collection that hurts, makes you laugh and makes you think. This is not just a book of poems; it is a document of the struggle for meaning, waged in the only place where that struggle is possible at all – in language. – Vladimir Tomić, writer and philosopher
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The poetry collection „Hleba i cigara!” by Milica Stojanović is a fierce, raw, authentic poetic debut that strikes hard, cuts without mercy and blasphemes relentlessly. It reveals a new, authentic female poetic voice on a stage woven from jaded fashion and sentimental posturing. With dramatic sharpness and an eye for detail, it offers a shrewd female gaze on a male world.
The poetry Milica Stojanović writes is all about refusal – refusal of omnipresent media stupidity, laconic social superficiality, exploitative mercantile capitalism, and the menagerie of the so-called successful.
And yet, poetry is of the female gender. Of courage and fear, depth and light. Of beauty and dread, daring and feeling. Of virtue. Of love. And love is the presence of the universe in every thing.
The poet is a wonder unto herself and to the world. A child of the Earth and the starry sky. – Prof. Dr Boško Suvajdžić
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Some books appear quietly, take their place on a shelf and wait to be discovered. Others enter the literary space as a breakthrough, tearing down the doors of their own intimacy and of social conventions with such force that it is impossible to stay aside. „Hleba i cigara!” by Milica Stojanović belongs to that second, rarer kind.
This book is a pulsing organism, in which every verse is a nerve ending exposed to the world without a protective membrane. Milica does not write poetry to decorate it; she uses it to diagnose, dissect and, finally, to survive. That search begins from the only possible place... From herself!
„Hleba i cigara!” is a collection that hurts, makes you laugh and makes you think. This is not just a book of poems; it is a document of the struggle for meaning, waged in the only place where that struggle is possible at all – in language. – Vladimir Tomić, writer and philosopher