WHEN THE FIREFLY IS GONE Page #3

								


OLJA IVANJICKI (Painter):

"When I walk into a bookstore I do not look for books by famous authors who have already proved themselves in the belles-lettres. I usually pay attention to new names and books that have appeared quietly, without any pomp. All those books have different fates that are entwined with our lives. On the floor below a book shelf I saw a book with a cover of an angel writing verses in his own blood. I lifted the book, wiping the dust off it. The book was by a Saša Milivojev. I glanced through a couple of symbolic verses full of dramatic conflicts of the lyric subject and a dark picture of the world. It was enough for me to buy the book and take it home, hoping that I would find a ray of light in it, but I was disappointed with the lyrical exaggerations. However, when I turned the last page of the book, I realised that the author was very young and forgave him right away. More than two years later, he called me saying that he wanted me to hear his poems. He read a couple of poems that took my breath away. I saw a firefly that was gone and moved away from him like "The light speck/And the shore remains deserted," the shore on which the young poet was carrying the light in his hands and had the role of a healer."

ŽIŽA STOJANOVIĆ (Actress):

"He is unusually mature for his age; associational and deeply emotional He can soar into the heights, and descend carefully, when appropriate. Saša Milivojev is in love with poetry and beauty, unorthodox and uncatchable..."

EVA RAS (Actress):

"When I first met Saša Milivojev, I wondered what had become of us, what we had done to not understand a child, a twenty-year-old poet, how come we had allowed him to be so sad, that he felt all the burden of this world as if he had to carry it all by himself. I read his poems, but not out loud. Ages ago, everyone would read poems aloud, but in the fourteenth century Saint Augustine discovered a way of reading poems to himself only, and was therefore burned at the stake as a devil. I read Sašas poems like Saint Augustine did. I realised how sad this child was and that we should support him, as he is only twenty and needs to work on his poetry more."

LJUBOMIR KOKOTOVIĆ (Painter):

"I have a feeling that I have already seen what Saša Milivojev wrote in his poems, and I am trying to convince myself that "that has always slept deep inside me."

Translated by ALKEMIST - European translation agency
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