Andrea Jurjević 🏹
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Croat 🌍 Poet. Writer. Translator. Editor 🌊 Faculty @GeorgiaStateU 📚🌈 @Anhinga_Press @WSBooks @lavender_ink_pr @WordWorksEditor & @SaturnaliaBooks
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🥁🥁🥁COVER REVEAL🥁🥁🥁
IN ANOTHER COUNTRY is coming out March 15, 2024 from
@SaturnaliaBooks
and she’d like to make plans with you ✨
Big thanks to Robin Vuchnich for cover design ⭐️
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“My mother was right: When you've got nothing left, all you can do is get into silk underwear and start reading Proust.”
― Jane Birkin
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someone told me tonight that watercolors are like poems, while oil paintings and acrylics are like novels. and I can’t quit thinking about it.
I used to paint, abstract acrylics and mixed media mostly. and just this morning I spent with watercolors
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i get really uncomfortable when people talk about poetry as a sacred thing. let it be what it's can be, sacred and profane, irreverent, transgressive, playful, carnal, whatever
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I wish newspapers published poems, at least in the Sunday paper. How else can the general public engage with poetry?
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how cool would it be to learn a new language primarily by memorizing poems?
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My poetry manuscript IN ANOTHER COUNTRY was selected by Roberto Tejado for the 2022 SATURNALIA BOOK PRIZE and will be published in Spring 2024! 🏹🎉
Congrats to my co-winner, Jared Stanley! I’m thrilled to have a book prize twin. 👯
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I’m curious. How many of you first got to poetry through music? Which musician, band or album turned that poetic sensibility on for you?
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“Body my house / my horse my hound” 🖤🖤🖤
—May Swenson
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Can you recommend a living foreign (non-American) poet?
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Beautiful, devastating poem.
“The body is surely no grave.” 🖤🖤🖤
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I wish all the fretting about what's lost in translation was replaced with concern about all the books we're missing out on because so few get translated. Also, let’s talk more about what’s found in translation: Magic. Surprise. Empathy. Closeness. Listening. Exchange.
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I'm looking for multilingual books or writers who braid languages in their prose or poetry. My personal favorite is Emine Sevgi Özdamar, and I love Gloria Anzaldúa. Do you know other folks who combine languages in ways that go beyond dropping a non-English phrase here and there?
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Some things never leave a person:
scent of the hair of one you love,
the texture of persimmons,
in your palm, the ripe weight.
— Li-Young Lee
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Poets and poetry teachers: what are some myths that you see perpetuated in writing circles?
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When I submit work to magazines, I don't expect a critique. A simple "Thanks, but this isn't a fit for us" works just fine. There's no need to list all the reasons a piece is missing the proverbial mark, as if writers are disciples in the church of the aesthetic establishment
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I'd love to connect with more writers who primarily work in languages that are not their mother tongues. If you know any, please share their names, handles, poems, stories, etc. Thanks!
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Honest question, poets: Do you feel like you have your poetry family, a close group of other poets, editors or teachers of poetry? Or do you feel like you're on the periphery of a larger community, perhaps even on the outside looking in?
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I thought the box on my porch last night was from Amazon! Turns out that box was filled with copies of my new book. She is beautiful!🥰
Very grateful to the designer Robin Vuchnich 🌊
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Very sad to learn that Dubravka Ugrešić, a brave, phenomenal Croatian writer passed away today. She was a legend 💔
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with so many discussions on what makes good writing, I'm again caught between cultures, one in which I grew up—rich in dialects, figurative speak and intestinal syntax—and the one here in the States that elevates clarity, conciseness and standard speak. taste is a learned thing.
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The idea that literature is not truly translatable (which, I imagine, comes from the assumption that translators are in the business of pursuing sameness) strikes me as veiled nationalism, a convenient way to keep the bookshelves “clean,” American
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What an explosively awesome poem. “We’re number none.” 🖤
Terrance Hayes
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Translators should be named on book covers! Why does this even need to be argued?!
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Literary genres, just like languages, have always been porous. Poets writing prose is not a new thing or a trend. I think academic programs sometimes make it seem like writers belong to either a family of prose writers or poetry writers.
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are there any interesting texts on the use of ampersand in poetry that you'd recommend to a serious student of poetry?
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Whoever needs to hear.. I taught myself how to write poetry in a second language in my thirties. In other words, anyone (who wants) can do it
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“Hot Sex” 🌶️ 🔥
From Unusually Grand Ideas, a beautiful new collection by
@jamesdavismay
✨🎈
@lsupress
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I love this poem, and oh, that “you” at the end 💘🌿Tr. by Clare Cavanagh
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@Danez_Smif
a collective/global strike demanding immediate ceasefire? not a one day thing but an ongoing refusal to participate until they quit killing people
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Members of the literary community—writers, editors, publishers, readers, translators, students—please read this call for recognizing translation as the creative writing practice that it is, and share it. 🙏🏼🌏
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When you're born and raised in a country that no longer exists, telling folks where you're from usually feels like you're not telling the whole truth. You either ignore the most important part of your life, or you sound like you came from a time tunnel.
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I submitted a short story about anal sex gone wrong and am laughing at the first rejection I just received: “this particular packet was not a good fit” 🤣🤣🤣
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does anyone happen to know the name of this plant? it’s very fragrant. the photos were taken two weeks apart in Atlanta
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📣
#AWP24
writer and editor friends📣
if you are looking for a poetry reader, I'd love to join your event and read from my new book, In Another Country (
@SaturnaliaBooks
), which is coming out March 15. we'll have copies at the conference 🎤
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✨Just found out my poetry collection IN ANOTHER COUNTRY (
@SaturnaliaBooks
) is available for preorders!✨
The pub date is March 15. I'd love to read at your bookstore or reading series, visit your class, or if you write reviews, send you a copy🖤
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“That the refugee industry is built on the business of waiting”
My Docupoetics students spent the morning discussing and loving
@maider_vang
’s remarkable Yellow Rain
@GraywolfPress
✨
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“even the dirt under fingernails is ready to bloom” 🌿
I love translating Marko Pogačar. From Dead Letter Office
@WordWorksEditor
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David Bottoms my poetry professor, and a big influence on my work. I will very much miss him.
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Another poem of mine that the kind editors of
@leavingslitmag
published in their new issue. The title comes from the opening sentence of Danilo Kiš’s essay “Homo Poeticus, Regardless”
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I stood in the red church,
its tiny domes like buds
blossoming in stone
—Najwan Darwish
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Happy to have four poems from my forthcoming collection, In Another Country, in the new issue of
@leavingslitmag
✨next to work by
@Joseph_Fasano_
and
@_janezwart_
Here’s one of the included poems and the link to the issue:
Thank you Zuleyha and Max 🌸
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Hi, friends! My book's official pub date is this Friday, March 15th! If you'd like to take a dive IN ANOTHER COUNTRY, I'd love to send you a signed copy 🌍
DM me your address and your preferred method of payment ($20 includes shipping) 💫
Thanks and much love 🌸
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What a month. My older son graduated from college three weeks ago and my baby boy graduated from high school yesterday. Whew🎓❤️
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I stayed up late like a teenager in love and this morning went to a meeting with paint on my face 😂
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What are some of the reasons behind which poetry books you buy? What makes you buy some books and not others?
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Very happy to have new work up at
@thenormalschool
. Here is one of the pieces, a poem in English with its Croatian shadow 👤
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panic on the streets of London, panic on the streets of Birmingham, I wonder to myself "Could life ever be sane again?" 🎶
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can’t wait to read and talk with the brilliant
@aliner
and
@miriam_calleja
🌍
Thurs, Nov 16, at 7 pm CST/ 8 pm EST
thanks to
@UABNews
and Alabama State Poetry Society
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Since everyone seems to be talking about serving cunt, here an old poem of mine that
@dorothykchan
published in
@SoutheastReview
✨
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i love this photo of us in Split. the Adriatic is not visible but still, i can see it in the salty air, the color of the light, the damp facade walls of the Diocletian palace. not a day goes by without me missing the sea 🌊☀️
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Honored to have a poem in this week's miCRo. Warmest thank you to the lovely
@CincinnReview
and Michael Alessi 🖤
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since I've started taking writing classes in the States, I've been taught to write tight and tough. I rarely hear folks suggest to write subtle and soft. and I know the value of specificity but wonder what it's doing to our ability to see that which is delicate and hard to name
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someone told me that my watercolor experiments are giving them Homer’s dark wine sea vibe and it’s the nicest compliment ever 🌊
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canceling writers has got to be the most cowardly move I can think of, especially at the time their homeland is being brutally destroyed
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good morning. here's a poem about my morning routine 🃏😜 how're you?
ps thank you
@thenormalschool
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Such a great point 🧨 From
@JohannesGoranss
Transgressive Circulation, essays on translation, quote from Aase Berg
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what leaf, this time of year, is so pale,
the pale of leaves when they’ve lost just
enough green to become the green that means
loss and more loss, approaching?
- Carl Phillips, from "Luna Moth"
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when magazines say they look forward to reviewing your submission, then take a year and half to respond 😆
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Interesting that this poem about my mom decided to come out on the anniversary of my dad passing away. Thank you
@believermag
and
@jerichobrown
🖤
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Do I know any poets, prose writers or translators in the South with a book coming out next year? I'd love to see if we could do some readings in the region together
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As an immigrant writer working in her non-native language, I cannot overstate the significance of the writing communities and the sense of belonging they provide 🌈🌍
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living in a second language feels like the brain is constantly working overtime
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What are some of your favorite poems that deal with physical health (or illness)? Any in translation?
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I’m looking for resources on video poetry and any texts on intersections of film and poetry. Has anyone you know taught a class like that? 🎬🌊
#WritingCommunity
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What are some of your favorite short stories and plays by Indigenous American authors?
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What are your favorite war novels in translation written by women?
When I teach World Lit, I like to focus on women writing war. I have loads of interesting poetry and short prose, but I'd like to include some new novels.
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Friends, please send poems to this contest and help spread the word! 🌚🙏🏼
Contest judge: the amazing
@jerichobrown
💃🏻
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Once, after one of my readings, an editor enthusiastically solicited work from me. Later he requested the poems do not contain the words “cunt” or “pussy.” So, I wrote him a poem. Big thank you to the lovely Southeast Review for featuring this poem🖤
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Imagine poets were known by their nicknames, or that they used mononyms, like Beyonce or Sappho. Imagine having one name only on your CV 😁
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NEW ESSAY 🌍 Thank you
@jamaicabaldwin
and
@TheSchooner
for including my essay “On Separateness” in this beautiful special issue on Home and Displacement 🌍
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Love these opening lines of the last poem in The Darkening Trapeze by Larry Levis 🖤
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Poetry gave me a community in a foreign country and a sense of self-worth. I remember visiting Fresno after my first book won Philip Levine prize and feeling like I got accepted into a family. It still means an awful lot ❤️
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Personality pic? Sag sun, pisces rising 🏹 🌊
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"Bilingual or multilingual consciousness is not the sum of two languages, but a different state of mind altogether—defined by the mode of translation."
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What are some of your favorite prose poems and flash fiction pieces that are sexy, erotic, or they engage with desire in decidedly surprising ways?
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I never would’ve gotten into poetry had I not discovered provocative literature when I was a kid. btw, kids are bored by so much stuff that is taught in school and there’s nothing wrong with “vulgar” language
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"Set in the cultural aftermath of the Yugoslav Wars, the enduring religious and ethnic tensions between Bosnia (majority Muslim) and Croatia (majority Catholic) foreground the social taboos that persist at the borders of ethnicity, religion, and sexuality"
Loved translating this
A brother’s mission to bring his estranged sister to Zagreb betrays less-than-altruistic motives in Olja Savičević Ivančević’s “The Border.”
Dive into this story about crossing boundaries—both national and societal—and seeking freedom.
#TranslationTuesday
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@SeanLemonhead
I remember finishing my MFA studies and worrying about how I'd continue growing as a writer without the guidance of my professors. So I started translating poetry, and those poets I translated became my new poetry teachers.
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"Haven’t you too wished yourself a goat
perched punch-drunk on a linden tree
blasé about the gold you might shit" 🖤🐐 🖤
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#Eurovision
is on, so here is a photo of me with Mrle, the frontman of Let 3, the band representing Croatia this year🤘
The band is from Rijeka, my hometown 🌊🖤
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“no one speaks of birds” 🪶
—from Monika Herceg’s Initial Coordinates, tr. by Marina Veverec,
@SandorfP
🌬️
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