In a Sentimental Mood

by Ivana Bodrozic

Overview

Džez standard In a Sentimental Mood iz 1935 godine, najpoznatiji u interpretaciji Djuka Elingtona i Džona Koltrejna, uspostavlja čudnovati dijalog sa istoimenom pesmom Ivane Bodrožić, koju s pravom možemo nazvati budućim izvorom. Ovo skriveno inspirisanje delom nekog prethodnika, kao kontrapunktualni, tajnoviti odnos između prošlosti i budućnosti, najbolje se uočava u stihovima: Jazz se sakrio / bojažljivo šušnuo metlicama / pred krstovima i kristovima, / pred glasnim očevima i sinovima. Da li su Elington i Koltrejn, svirajući In a Sentimental Mood, anticipirali autorkine strahove i drhtanja zbog muškaraca kojih više nema i zbog muškaraca koji, ma koliko jedne volela a druge mrzela, nikako da nestanu iz njenog života? Pravimo se hrabri s Coltraineom u ušima, drhti pod plahtom lirski subjekt od krvi i mesa, šćućuren uz, još uvek, voljeno biće; pravi je čas za povratak u vreme kad čudovište sve proguta, i kada je nužno sve one agresivne i ratoborne muškarce, koji bez prestanka pljuju i psuju, nadglasati muzikom, ma koliko sentimentalnom. Jazz je tako krhak, ljubavi, ali ovoga puta, kaže pesnikinja ohrabrena D molom, bićemo spremni. Iako je In a Sentimental Mood Ivane Bodrožić jedna od onih knjiga koje stoje između života i smrti, bez zadrške svedočeći o umiranju, tuzi, oduzimanju i patnji, život je u njoj ipak najčešće ispevana reč.
Sršan V. Tešin

Product Details

BN ID:	2940156188376
Publisher:	Knjizevna radionica Rasic
Publication date:	11/15/2018
Sold by:	PUBLISHDRIVE KFT
Format:	eBook
Pages:	88
File size:	170 KB
Language:	Croatian

About the Author

Ivana Bodrožic lives in Zagreb, Croatia. In 2005, she published her first poetry collection, Prvi korak u tamu (The First Step Into Darkness) as part of the Goran Award for Young Poets. Her first novel Hotel Zagorje (Hotel Tito) was published in 2010 and went on to be a Croatian best-seller; the French edition won the prestigious Prix Ulysse for best debut novel. She has also published the poetry collection Prijelaz za divlje životinje (A Road for Wild Animals) and the short story collection 100% Pamuk (100% Cotton). Her novel The Pit was awarded the Balkan Noir Prize for best crime novel. Bodrožic's work has been translated into English, German, French, Czech, Danish, Slovenian, Hungarian, Spanish, Italian, and Macedonian.

Ellen Elias-Bursac translates fiction and nonfiction from Bosnian, Croatian, and Serbian, including Ivana Bodrožic's novel The Hotel Tito. Her translation of David Albahari's novel Götz and Meyer was given the 2006 ALTA National Translation Award. She is the president of the American Literary Translators Association.

Damir Šodan is a Croatian poet, playwright, editor, and translator. His notable poetry translations into Croatian include the work of Leonard Cohen, Charles Bukowski, Raymond Carver, Charles Simic, Richard Brautigan, and Frank O'Hara. He divides his time between The Hague, the Netherlands, and Split, Croatia.

Editorial Reviews

"In this brave and fresh poetry with (no) sentimental mood, "the bIeeding/ is what’s/ in the middle" – between the comfort and the disaster, the laugh and the cry, the joy and the sadness, the tenderness and the cruelty, the peace and the war, the summer atmosphere and the grave stones, the Eros and the Thanatos, the ethics and the esthetics, between the life and the death." —Lidija Dimkovska, author, A Spare Life and ph Neutral History


"In this vibrant collection Ivana Bodrožic, a voice of a generation marked by war, frames poems of loss, love, and trauma in jazz classics, lifting the haunting past into the realm of music giants. Astute, playful, interrogating, and dexterously rendered into English by Ellen Elias-Bursac and Damir Šodan, these poems move with sustained passion and intimate precision." —Andrea Jurjevic, author, Small Crimes

"Just finished In a Sentimental Mood. Which did, indeed, put me in a sentimental mood. Very beautiful collection of poems." —Hannah, Porter Square Books

"The title piece is such a wonderful love poem in spite of itself, in spite of war and pain (we feel Bodrožić tiptoe toward sentiment) . . . A book of bodily pain and soulful despair." —Nick Ripatrazone, The Millions

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